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Prohibiting tenure systems at public postsecondary educational institutions, and including applicability provisions
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 14, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- 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
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, and provides that the provision in the Code which authorizes community college administrations to establish quality faculty planning committees shall not be construed to authorize a community college to establish a tenure system for any employee of the community college. shall include but not be limited to just cause, program discontinuance, and financial exigency.
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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.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 14, 2021. On February 11, 2021 it recommended passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
0 for · 18 against · 6 undecided · Who →
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- SF 27 Relating to the establishment of tenure systems at public postsecondary educational instit…88th General Assembly · Subcommittee recommends passage · very similarCleared committee
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