Posttenure Review or a Plan to Undercut Tenure?

Inside Higher Ed
By Colleen Flaherty
February 27, 2018

A joint committee of faculty members and administrators from across the University of Tennessee's four campuses spent months revising the system's posttenure review policy, which it acknowledged was outdated and needed strengthening.  The committee included the university system's Board of Trustees in its process and its recommendations were adopted this year, with the goal of making posttenure review clearer and more meaningful.

So professor's from across the system are baffled and alarmed by a new, hastily written add-on proposal from the trustees, with some saying it challenges the idea of tenure altogether.

Read the full article at the Inside Higher Ed website here.