A bill to be entitled and act relating to post-tenure evaluation of faculty tenured at certain institutions of higher education. A governing board may not waive the evaluation process for any faculty member granted tenure at the institution. The rules adopted by a governing board of an institution of higher education pursuant to the provisions of this act shall provide for the post-tenure evaluation of each faculty member tenured at the institution as of the effective date of of this act by January 1, 2004. This act takes effect January 1, 1998. The importance of this legislation and the crowded calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
Institutional regulations are to be adopted by the governing boards, i.e. political appointees.
Personally, I do not understand how standing for reapproval every six years differs from permanent probation. In other words, passage of this bill is the effective end of tenure and would give each of us the kind of academic freedom we felt during our probationary period. It would also be the effective end of meaningful shared governance.