Fla. Judge Rejects Union’s Challenge to New Rules on Tenure-Like Contracts

By Nick DeSantis. An administrative-law judge in Florida has rejected a faculty union’s challenge to new guidelines from the state Board of Education on the awarding of tenure-like continuing contracts at state colleges. The guidelines include a requirement that institutions in the state-college system consider measures of student success in awarding the contracts to faculty members. The state-college system was formerly known as a community-college system but no longer goes by that name because some of its member institutions offer four-year programs. More...