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🚨 BIG shift in Oklahoma higher ed. Gov. Stitt just signed an order ENDING lifetime tenure for new professors at nearly all public 4-year universities. Instead, their new faculty will need to be hired on fixed-term contracts that would be renewable based on a faculty member's documented performance involving student outcomes, institutional service, and “alignment with workforce and Oklahoma economic needs.” Faculty who already have tenure or who are currently eligible for it would retain their status, according to the order. The tenure ban would appear to apply to the following i1 four-year institutions: University of Central Oklahoma, Northeastern State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, East Central University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Cameron University, Langston University, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, Rogers State University, and the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Future faculty hires at Oklahoma's 12 officially designated community colleges are subject to the same order. Claiming that the state has a "constitutional and statutory responsibility to steward taxpayer dollars wisely and ensure public institutions of higher education operate with accountability, transparency, and measurable outcomes," Stitt's order spares faculty tenure at the state's research universities — the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University and their affiliated health science campuses. At those institutions, tenure will be maintained, but it will be tied to mandatory, 5-year post-teunre reviews. And according to Stitt's order, based on those reviews, tenured faculty can be reassigned or terminated for "sustained failure to meet established performance standards." 🔗Source: Forbes #HigherEd #Tenure #Oklahoma #ShanghaiRanking #ranking #faculty