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In Kansas, it just got easier to fire tenured professors at public universities.
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This week we got a new president and vice president. While you were distracted by the presidential inauguration, or giggling at the storm of memes of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, something else happened.
On Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents voted to create a process through which the state s six public universities can quickly fire and suspend workers, including tenured faculty members.
Why? Regent Shane Bangerter said the extreme process is imperative, given how the coronavirus pandemic has wrecked the state s higher-education finances. It s a temporary move with a December 2022 end date.