Kansas House bill strives to strip property interest from definition of university, college tenure

Emporia State University President Ken Hush, center in sweater, remains a defendant in a federal lawsuit seeking to reverse the firing of 11 tenured faculty at ESU in 2022. On Tuesday, a Kansas House committee will consider a bill altering state law to declare awarding university tenure didn't mean a professor was receiving a property right associated with their employment. The bill was drafted by Steven Lovett, an ESU attorney and a defendant in the lawsuit with Hush. Photo Credit: TIM CARPENTER / KANSAS REFLECTOR
By Tim Carpenter Kansas Reflector Legislation headed to a Kansas House committee Tuesday would redefine tenure at public higher education institutions to strike the concept…

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