The North Dakota Board of Higher Education is looking to rein in professor tenure, particularly at its community colleges, according to a draft report.
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Republican lawmakers and a university president pushed a bill last year that would diminish faculty job protections at two institutions. It failed by a hair, but the State Board of Higher Education has taken up the mantle. Last year, the North Dakota House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that threatened tenure protections. It would have allowed the presidents of Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College to fire tenured faculty members without any review from a faculty committee.
The president of Williston State College on Tuesday defended tenure at North Dakota’s two-year colleges, saying it would be impossible to recruit without tenure track positions.
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