From the Chronicle of Higher Education: ...The Kansas Board of Regents directed ...that tenured professors must now develop work plans that will be used for annual evaluations and undergo post-tenure review every five years, down from every seven. Those who receive an “unsatisfactory” annual evaluation will be “subject to dismissal, reassignment, an additional one-year improvement plan, or other personnel actions.”
Meanwhile, all full-time faculty members will be expected to teach a set number of credit hours per semester: six to nine for those at the state’s three research institutions — the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, and Wichita State University — and 12 for professors at the regional institutions — Pittsburg State University, Emporia State University, and Fort Hays State University. Each institution will determine the percentages of time faculty members should devote to teaching, research, and service, within ranges provided by the regents.
The new policies come one year after a bill allowing tenure to be “at any time revoked, limited, altered or otherwise modified by the awarding institution” or by regents was introduced in the Kansas House of Representatives. While that bill stalled, it signaled increasing legislative interest in tenure reform.
This year’s policy changes, which passed unanimously, were Kansas regents’ proactive attempt to placate Republican lawmakers who might continue to seek drastic changes, Rusty Monhollon, the board’s vice president for academic affairs, told The Chronicle. “That was our motivation: Having a stricter tenure or workload policy was preferable to not having tenure at all,” he said...
Full story at https://www.chronicle.com/article/another-states-public-universities-are-tightening-post-tenure-review-and-dictating-teaching-loads.
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