In the first couple years of her career, University of South Carolina historian Carol Harrison felt firsthand the fragility of academic freedom. She did not have tenure when someone called her a ...

Tenure has granted faculty at U.S. colleges and universities the rights to peer review, committee deliberation and presentation of evidence and witnesses before being fired. These hard-earned ...

As I write, the Kansas House Committee on Judiciary is about to hear HB 2348, which would eliminate tenure at higher education institutions governed by the State of Kansas. The bill emerged from a ...

Kansas House Bill 2348, which would eliminate tenure at state universities, could have significant negative consequences for higher education in the state. Contrary to popular belief, tenured ...

American universities, including those in our state, are universally recognized to be the greatest in the world. We produce by far the most original, lifesaving research and the most world leaders in ...

T he Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure is arguably the most important body of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Over its storied history, it has done as much as any ...

Academic freedom is not a gift. It is a structure long protected by tenure, a contract with no expiration date that guarantees procedural protections to faculty. Tenure has granted faculty at U.S.