The University of Kansas will have four more months to potentially put together a policy that has brought backlash not just from its faculty but from higher education groups around the country.
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved the university's request to extend a deadline for developing a framework for that policy. The regents at their January meeting had approved an unexpected policy that would allow the state universities to develop frameworks to essentially suspend regular job protections like tenure for faculty and staff in order to deal with the financial ramifications of COVID-19.
That move was quickly condemned not only by KU faculty but by faculty groups across Kansas and the nation that argue any potential policy would circumvent the usual job protection and appeals procedures afforded to faculty with tenure.