Tag Archives: Tenure

How a tweet about eating a colleague almost stopped a professor from receiving tenure

A month after The Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning took the unusual step of discussing whether to grant Professor...

Rare split vote to grant professor tenure detailed in IHL Board meeting minutes

More than a month after The Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning took the unusual step of discussing whether to grant...

Professor granted tenure after concern over past social media posts delays process

James Thomas, a sociology professor with a history of controversial social media posts, was granted tenure by the IHL Board of Trustees on Thursday. Thomas’s...

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