“Conservatives take aim at tenure for University professors”

They have a charter by the State. For the Univerisity of Texas, it was granted in 1845. But you have to look at what the charter says and how they are funded. Texas is funded and has been for a long time, an oil well, or more likely a bunch of oil wells. There is one that is located on the campus with a historical marker. And it is still producing oil BTW. But the governing body is the board of regents, not the state legislature. Tenue professors are a viable resource to any research institution like the University of Texas. And private universities also get funding from the state for specific programs. So, any bill that bans tenured professors may affect them as well.

But as I said, I don't think this will pass given the short amount of time the legislature has. It may pass the House but won't have time in the Senate. And this won't be something that will make a special session possible.

 

Yale is a private institution buckwheat, not the University of Texas. Totally different. Whatever happened that if it is private, they can do what they want? Or that does not apply here because it does not fit your political Motus Operandi.

 

Nice job burning the straw dog.

 

HIGHER ED GOT WOKE. AND NOW: North Dakota bill would make it easier to fire tenured professors.

'Once you could argue to conservatives that tenure was an important means of protecting conservative scholars at liberal universities. But now conservative scholars are so scarce — and liberal universities so unwilling to stand up to woke mobs anyway — that the argument has lost much of its force.'

Skin in the Game:
'Bill proposes faculty must generate tuition exceeding their salaries.'

Accountability:
'The new program would clarify faculty responsibilities and empower the president of the university could review and fire faculty if they failed to fulfill them.'

“By making all faculty members, including those with tenure, accountable, the Tenure with Responsibilities bill will provide a mechanism for college presidents to force unproductive faculty members to become productive or lose their jobs if they refuse to become productive,” ~ Stephen Easton, president of Dickinson State University

'faculty must “comply with the policies, procedures, and directives of the institution, the institution’s president and other administrators, the state board of higher education, and the North Dakota university system“ and “effectively teach and advise a number of students approximately equal to the average campus faculty teaching and advising load,”' the bill states.