IHE | wmot
Faculty governance leaders across Tennessee rallied against HB 2194: issuing resolutions, building coalitions across public institutions of higher education and delivering formal petitions to the state in defense of tenure. By the time the bill passed both chambers of the General Assembly and reached the governor, who signed it into law last Thursday, faculty leaders across the state had absorbed what the measure does: strips peer review from faculty misconduct proceedings, concentrates termination authority in a single administrator and deletes TCA § 49-8-303—the statutory section that houses Tennessee’s detailed hearing procedures for tenured faculty. These are real losses, and I do not intend to minimize them.