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Title: Tenure Bans: An Exploratory Study of State Legislation Proposing to Eliminate Faculty Tenure, 2012-2022
Language: English
Authors: Barrett J. Taylor, Kimberly Watts
Source: Review of Higher Education. 2025 48(4):519-546.
Availability: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2715 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Tel: 800-548-1784; Tel: 410-516-6987; Fax: 410-516-6968; e-mail: jlorder@jhupress.jhu.edu; Web site: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/list
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 28
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, State Legislation, Program Termination, Educational Change, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Personnel Policy, Higher Education, Economic Factors, Social Influences, State Policy
Geographic Terms: Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, West Virginia
DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2025.a962243
ISSN: 0162-5748
1090-7009
Abstract: This article explores introduced tenure bans, meaning state-level legislation proposing eliminating tenure protections within all or part of a public higher education system. We describe such bills 2012-2022 and explore state-level political, economic, social, and higher education conditions associated with introducing a tenure ban. Tenure bans were linked to underlying political and social conditions, not to economic variation, suggesting that efforts to undermine faculty tenure reflected underlying mistrust in higher education rather than efforts to cope with financial uncertainty.
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