Tennessee lawmakers have introduced a bill that could ban universities from granting new tenure to professors. Is getting ...

Dr. Stanley Andrisse, a tenured professor at Howard University College of Medicine, is a living example of how hope and higher education can totally change someone’s life. He went from a ...

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

The University of Kansas campus is pictured in this September 2023 aerial photo. Tenured faculty members at the University of Kansas would get reviewed more often and might have to teach more classes ...

The story of Phillip Michael Hook, a tenured art professor at the University of South Dakota (USD), fits snugly within this fire-Kirk-haters framework. More importantly, his successful lawsuit against ...

A Texas State University professor was fired days after he made remarks the institution’s president described as advocating for “inciting violence,” becoming the second faculty member in the state ...

A tenured Texas State University professor who was fired this month in a speech-related case that drew pushback from many academic-freedom advocates has been reinstated for now following a judge’s ...

The power to grant or deny tenure is a prerogative that faculty have long held sacred. But at Harvard, the final decisions to shut the door on tenure cases have increasingly been made out of ...

A spate of firings in the fall revealed just how corroded tenure protections have become. How did we get here? Tom Alter was standing on the sidelines of his son’s soccer practice one Wednesday ...

This post was updated Jan. 25 at 9:22 p.m. The UC Board of Regents approved the dismissal of a tenured UCLA professor Wednesday. Priyanga Amarasekare, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor who ...

To many of her Harvard colleagues, Durba Mitra — an associate professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies — looked like a practically perfect candidate for tenure. Mitra had written two books by ...