West Virginia University officials have suspended a contentious proposal that would have advanced professors doing diversity work while making it easier to fire tenured colleagues whose work is deemed subpar.
“The provost has decided to suspend work on the revised promotion and tenure document for now,” W. Scott Wayne, chair of the faculty senate, told The Washington Times. “We will continue to operate under the 2014 guidelines.”
Officials at the public research university in Morgantown initially said they hoped to save the proposal, which had already undergone several revisions in the face of withering criticism. According to Ms. Johnson, a faculty committee representing all departments began meeting weekly in February 2021 to recommend updates to the tenure document.
The proposal also would have let administrators flag tenured professors as “unsatisfactory” during annual performance reviews and fire them if they do not complete improvement plans. Those compromises included deleting new requirements that would have tied tenure decisions to the school’s code of conduct and a post-tenure review after five years.
Resistance from tenured professors prompted the faculty senate on Dec. 5 and again on Jan. 16 to delay voting on the document. That set the stage for the full faculty to vote against the proposal on Jan. 19, sending it back to the provost’s office.In the U.S., tenure has traditionally offered professors protection against being censured or targeted for political reasons.
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