From Inside Higher Ed: A new law says Kentucky public college and university boards can lay off even tenured faculty for “bona fide financial reasons” including, but not limited to, low enrollment in a major or “misalignment of revenue and costs.” The legislation requires 30 days’ notice to the affected professor, giving them only a month to defend their job to board members... The Kentucky General Assembly finished passing House Bill 490 on April 1. Democratic governor Andy Beshear vetoed it April 13, writing in his official veto message that the legislation would let boards fire tenured faculty “for an ambiguous and vague new standard of ‘bona fide financial reasons.’”
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/04/17/kentucky-gop-overrides-beshears-veto-faculty-firing-bill.
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