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Committee approves HB 424, setting performance-review process for publiccollege faculty and clarifying removal grounds
Summary
House Bill 424, as amended by a committee substitute, requires boards of regents at Kentucky public postsecondary institutions to establish performance-review policies and adds failure to meet those standards as a possible cause for removal; the committee reported the bill favorably despite public testimony opposing it as an erosion of tenure.
Representative Tipton, sponsor of House Bill 424, told the committee that the bill does not abolish tenure but instead requires each board of regents to adopt policies establishing a performance-review process for faculty and employees, including presidents, and clarifies that failure to meet institutionally adopted performance and productivity requirements may constitute cause for removal.
Tipton said he was unable to draft a single statutory definition of tenure that would suit all institutions and therefore left the definition to each institution’s governing board. The committee substitute narrows earlier language that would have authorized up…
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