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Kentucky Bill Threatens Tenured Positions at Universities
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Kentucky bill threatens tenured positions at universities
As House Bill 490 nears passage in the Kentucky legislature, alarm bells have been raised as to what this could mean for professors with tenured positions. The bill adds verbiage to Kentucky law, which would allow public universities to remove tenured faculty members due to financial exigency (emergency), low enrollment in a degree program or misalignment of revenue. Journalism Professor Mac McKerral, senator-large in WKU’s faculty senate, sai…
AHA Opposes Proposed Bill Attacking Tenure in Kentucky
The American Historical Association strongly opposes House Bill 490, which would allow boards of regents, which include politically appointed members, to fire faculty at public colleges and universities for reasons unrelated to professional merit.
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