AAUP
It is no exaggeration to say that HB 715, if it were to become law, would spell the end of the public research university in the state of North Carolina. Without the protection of tenure, without the freedom to pursue a robust research agenda rooted in a discipline’s search for the truth, and with the expectation that a faculty member’s hours in the classroom must always be high and rising, no academician looking for a new home would dare step foot in this state.