UK’s faculty worry they’re more vulnerable to firing under proposed policy changes

The University of Kentucky’s tenured faculty are in limbo about how their performance will be evaluated starting in one month.

Kentucky’s General Assembly passed House Bill 424 in March 2025, which required universities to create new guidelines on how to evaluate faculty performance.

Under the law, a faculty member’s “failure to meet college or university performance and productivity requirements” is “cause” for even tenured faculty to be fired. Each university gets to set those requirements…

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