Tufts Medical School professors won a landmark tenure case, but protections for longtime professors are still waning.

While the concept of long-term loyalty to a single employer has become a more complicated proposition, the underlying need ...

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.

Tenure is a concept that U.S. higher education embraced more than a century ago. It’s meant to give faculty members academic freedom. That means if they are teaching or doing research in controversial ...

Professors, students, alumni, journalists, professional athletes, artists and and political activists are outraged over Nikole Hannah-Jones not receiving tenure with her appointment to UNC-Chapel Hill ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of all the things a university professor can achieve in their career, few are as desirable as academic tenure. Academic tenure is ...

In a guest column today, Matthew Boedy, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of North Georgia, discusses why tenure, often criticized as protecting incompetence and ...

After six years, including three pandemic semesters, I thought that finally earning tenure in the spring of 2021 would make me very, very happy. I would be borne forward inexorably on a wave of bliss ...

South Carolina’s House of Representatives will consider whether it will effectively do away with tenure at colleges and universities throughout the state. The Canceling Professor Tenure Act has the ...

A bill in the Iowa Legislature, House File 49, banning tenure at Iowa’s universities passed a House committee this session, clearing a key legislative March deadline colloquially called "the funnel." ...

The average tenure for registered nurses nationwide is 5 years, an ADP Research Institute report found. Today at Work, a quarterly workforce research report, analyzed data from more than 25 million ...