Inside Higher Ed: Do Ag profs need tenure?
A University of Arkansas vice president has announced plans to no longer hire new agriculture professors on the tenure track — a move faculty members say will make it impossible for them to attract the best talent or provide academic freedom.
The plan affects only those hired through the university system’s agriculture department. Some others, hired directly by the agriculture program at the Fayetteville campus, may still be tenure track. But those hired by the system office teach and do research at Fayetteville and for the state’s extension system, and Arkansas faculty members say that the change represents a serious erosion of faculty rights.
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