In a Feb. 4 interview with the Associated Press, Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee revived a contentious debate in academia by calling for a reassessment of the tenure process at research ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes” available in the Chronicle Store. It’s no secret that tenure has come under attack — not just by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UNC Chapel Hill. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NCNewsline) The UNC University System Board of Governors approved a new policy for ...

Blake Benson, chair of the Kansas Board of Regents, speaks at a board event on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. Regent Alysia Johnston, chair of the Academic Affairs Standing Committee, is pictured to the ...

Blake Flanders, president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, and Blake Benson, chair of the Regents, are pictured at the organization's annual retreat on July 30, 2025 at Kansas State University.

I must take strong exception to the passage in “The Two-Year Track: Tenure and the Two-Year College” in which Rob Jenkins states, “Recently, the chancellor of the Alabama community-college system ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Senate Bill 18, which would remove the possibility of tenure for Texas professors, faces opposition from over 700 Texas professors, who signed a petition “to protect academic freedom ...

After years of negotiations, the Union of Tenure System Faculty has been officially recognized by Michigan State University. The road to recognition began in 2020, when tenure-track faculty began ...

The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education enacted a tenure policy requiring a master’s or other advanced degree for professors to receive tenure. The new policy passed the board in a unanimous ...