{"id":5520,"date":"2009-03-19T09:50:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2009-03-19T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:50:43","slug":"kentucky-community-colleges-eliminate-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/kentucky-community-colleges-eliminate-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky community colleges eliminate tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/03\/16\/kentucky\">Read Their Lips: No New Tenure<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a one-sided vote, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System\u2019s Board of Regents decided Friday to eliminate tenure for all new faculty hires. Though top system officials lauded the move, many faculty groups pledged to take fight to the state Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-member board is made up of eight gubernatorial appointees and six representatives elected by the system\u2019s faculty, staff and students. The appointed members have full votes and elected members have half a vote. By a vote of 8.5 to 2.5, the Regents approved a revision of the system\u2019s employment policy that eliminates the possibility of tenure for all new faculty hires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Read Their Lips: No New Tenure In a one-sided vote, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System\u2019s Board of Regents decided Friday to eliminate tenure for all new faculty hires. Though top system officials lauded the move, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/kentucky-community-colleges-eliminate-tenure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2274],"tags":[2717,1288962],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenure-promotion","tag-kentucky","tag-tenure-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}