End of Tenure System: A New Reality Has Arrived

The Association celebrated its second year in March with more than 125k viewers. This shows what we have discussed in the blog is the interest of many people and the American public. Recently we read, the State of Tennessee Board of Region has discussed the possibility to “De-tenure” the faculty members within its system. Simply put, due to budget constraint, the tenure system may no longer relevant. On March 18, 2013—exactly about two years ago, the Association has written an article on the topic to remind the players in the industry what are coming their ways. Nothing wrong with the tenure policy, so long the money is available to support it. Budget limitation does not just happen in TN, but in all other places as we have mentioned on February 11, 2015.  Those who are negatively impacted by the policy changes could be very well disappointed, but the new reality has come and the policy makers are under pressure to deal with it.