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Republicans in the Iowa legislature are advancing bills that would ban professors from getting tenure at the state s three regents universities. The lawmakers say conservative students are being silenced.
Leaders at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa say the ban would make it harder to recruit and keep faculty.
Iowa would become the first state in the country to ban tenure at its regents universities if bills that have advanced in the Iowa Legislature were signed into law. GOP legislators who support the move say it’s about protecting the free speech of conservative students and making it easier to fire faculty. While similar legislation has been introduced in past legislative sessions, it has moved farther along this year.
Republicans in the Iowa legislature are advancing bills that would ban professors from getting tenure at the state’s three regents universities because they say conservative students are beings silenced. Leaders at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa say the ban would make it harder to recruit and keep faculty.
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