In several red states around the country, conservative officials say it's time to reconsider tenure for university professors.
Max McCoy, the lone journalism professor at Emporia State University, poses for a photo in front of the school's administration building Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Emporia, Kan. McCoy was was one of 33 mostly tenured professors fired at the school using an emergency pandemic measure allowing universities to bypass regular policies covering terminations to balance budgets. – When Lt. Gov.
But in difficult financial and political times, even tenured professors may not be guaranteed employment. In Texas, university administrators are working behind the scenes to squash anticipated legislation that would target tenure, fearful it will hurt recruitment, said Jeff Blodgett, president of the Texas Conference of AAUP.
The pushback follows decades of declining rates of tenured faculty. According to the AAUP, 24% of faculty members held full-time tenured appointments in fall 2020, compared with 39% in fall 1987, the first year for which directly comparable information is available.
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