Some lawmakers want to curtail giving tenure to college professors, but opponents argue tenure protects educators from political whims.
Conservative lawmakers in state legislatures across the country have been challenging what they consider controversial topics in colleges and universities. But there's a new front in the academic culture wars.
The vote to deny tenure drew objections from students and faculty, and one board member, Matthew Lepinski, resigned in protest. Distrust of academia has been growing among American conservatives for years. Asked if they agree with the statement"most college professors teach liberal propaganda," 83% of Republicans polled said they agreed according to a 2022 poll by FiveThirtyEight, PerryUndem and YouGov.Lawmakers have proposed measures to bar tenure overall or to weaken it by establishing post-tenure review, known as PTR.
Weakening tenure with a new review process would have deep impacts, says Ohio State English professor Pranav Jani, the president of his state’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors. "This small group of professors, they voted for it 41-5, they don't understand that we in the legislature represent the people of Texas," he said."Of course we're going to have a say in what the curriculum is."
Professor Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado Boulder said that tenure protects academic voices of all political stripes.
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