Kansas Board of Regents tighten faculty review rules

The Kansas Board of Regents has ordered state universities to adopt standardized faculty workload and tenure review policies that could lead to remediation or termination for underperforming professors.

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January 20, 2026 - 2:47 PM

Kansas Board of Regents member Alysia Johnston, who leads the board’s academic affairs committee, endorses faculty workload and post-tenure review policies applicable at the six public universities in the state system. Photo by Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — The Kansas Board of Regents ordered state public universities to implement faculty workload and tenure review policies that will bring underperforming professors to remediation, with termination a potential consequence for failure to address deficiencies.

The mandate applied to thousands of faculty employed at Kansas State University, the University of Kansas, Pittsburg State University, Fort Hays State University, Emporia State University and Wichita State University. Expectations for nontenure, tenure-track and tenured faculty wouldn’t be identical from university…

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