Bill: North Dakota presidents could fire tenured faculty

Image:  North Dakota’s House majority leader has introduced legislation that would let presidents of at least two colleges, Dickinson State University and Bismarck State College, fire tenured faculty members based on those presidents’ own, unappealable reviews. The final paragraph of the roughly two-page House Bill 1446 is this: “The president and any administrators delegated to assist the president shall fulfill these duties without fear of reprisal or retaliation. No complaint,...