Tennessee, Kansas, Kentucky and Oklahoma are ramping up attempts to end or gut faculty tenure. Those attempts could change the faculty tenure landscape significantly.

Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Male professors have continued to outnumber female full professors at the University. While the percentage of female ...

After concerns over a lack of professors receiving tenure in 2025, the UNC Board of Trustees used a written ballot to confer tenure on more than two dozen employees. WRAL reported on the unusual ...

On Wednesday, the UNC Board of Trustees granted tenure to 33 faculty members whose promotions had been delayed for multiple months. The action follows concerns voiced by faculty about the implications ...

As states like Florida and Texas gut tenure protections for university faculty, many assume the greatest loss is to academic freedom. But tenure is not just about academic freedom. It also is, and has ...

Philosopher and professor Arthur Oncken Lovejoy receives an honorary diploma from fellow Johns Hopkins philosophy professor George Boas during the University's class of 1951 commencement ceremony, ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, administrators have launched the ...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January — an unusual period of inaction that has spurred confusion and ...