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

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 ...

Blake Benson, chair of the Kansas Board of Regents, speaks at a board event on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. Regent Alysia Johnston, chair of the Academic Affairs Standing Committee, is pictured to the ...

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 ...

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.

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

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." ...