University of Tennessee leaders say the bill would cripple the higher education system, harming students and an institution that powers the economy.

Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of all the things a university professor can achieve in their career, few are as desirable as academic tenure. Academic tenure is ...

In the three years between leaving NASA as a research meteorologist and landing at the University of Georgia’s atmospheric sciences program, James Marshall Shepherd ascended the academic ladder there, ...

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One of the most high-profile new laws Texas passed last year was Senate Bill 3, a ban on teaching “critical race theory” in grades K-12, which went into effect in December. The measure was met with ...

If passed, Senate Bill 18 would not allow public universities in Texas to offer professors tenure after September 1, 2023. However, the proposal would not affect professors who currently have tenure.

Professors, students, alumni, journalists, professional athletes, artists and and political activists are outraged over Nikole Hannah-Jones not receiving tenure with her appointment to UNC-Chapel Hill ...

This story originally published online at NC Newsline. Faculty tenure at UNC System universities and community colleges would end under a new bill filed last week. House Bill 715 would “prospectively ...

Being denied tenure is a career blow that can leave emotional scars. After roughly half a dozen years of work, you’re left to grapple with feelings of anger and a personal sense of failure. You’ve ...

"Tenure matters for exactly the reason that I didn't initially receive it." Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was offered tenure at the journalism school of her alma mater, the ...