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Prohibiting tenure systems at the institutions of higher learning governed by the state board of regents, and including applicability provisions
Sponsored by the House Education Committee
Topics:K–12 educationHigher education
Same legislation: HF 49
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 13, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 14, 2021
- Done: House committeeFebruary 10, 2021
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa's state university system would no longer allow a tenure system for its employees. This change affects faculty members, though those with existing contracts that were renewed after July 1, 2021, are not included. Each university must create new written rules for how they hire, evaluate, and dismiss their staff.1
Read the official explanation
This bill directs the state board of regents to prohibit the establishment or continuation of a tenure system at the regents universities for any employee of a regents university. The bill provides that acceptable grounds for termination of employment of any member of a regents university’s faculty shall include but not be limited to just cause, program discontinuance, and financial exigency. Each university is directed to adopt a written statement enumerating employment agreements, annual performance evaluations of all faculty members, minimum standards of good practice, standards for review and discipline of faculty members, and policies with regard to dismissal for cause, program discontinuance, and financial exigency. The bill provides that each dean of a college at a regents university and the president of the university shall employ faculty as necessary to carry out the academic duties and responsibilities of the college. The provision relating to faculty members employed by regents universities does not apply to a faculty member who entered into an employment contract with a regents university prior to July 1, 2021, unless such contract is renewed on or after July 1, 2021. The bill makes corresponding changes in the Code.
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
1 for · 29 against · 7 undecided · Who →
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This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 27 Relating to the establishment of tenure systems at public postsecondary educational instit…88th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · similarCleared committee
Similar bills this General Assembly
- HF 48 Prohibiting tenure systems at the institutions of higher learning governed by the state bo…90th General Assembly · In committeeNearly identical
- SF 41 Prohibiting tenure systems at public postsecondary educational institutions, and including…89th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passageVery similar
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