The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 23rd, 2015
The State College of Florida will no longer offer continuing contracts to new faculty members, a change strongly opposed by professors at the Bradenton college as well as its president. The Bradenton Herald reports that the college’s trustees voted to end the tenure-like system for new professors, in part, they said, so the college would be able to fire misbehaving professors more easily.
“I support academic freedom,” said one board member, Craig Trigueiro, “but academic freedom is not academic immunity.”
Before trustees voted to nix the system, the institution’s president, Carol F. Probstfeld, said the proposed policy would “put us at a competitive disadvantage to bring and retain the excellent faculty that we need.”