KCTCS ends tenure for new faculty

This from H-L:

VERSAILLES — The governing board of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System voted just before noon Friday to eliminate tenure for new faculty members in the system.

Tenured teachers already on staff at the system's 16 community and technical colleges will not be affected.

Faculty members from a number of community colleges turned out to oppose the move, some carrying signs saying "Keep Tenure." Board of Regents chairman Richard Bean warned them at one point that anyone who stood or held their signs above eye level would be removed from the meeting room...

KCTCS Threatens to Keep New Buildings Closed

This from PolWatchers:

... "The KCTCS Board of Regents will not approve the opening of any of these new buildings without the necessary operating funds," said Richard Bean of Louisville, chairman of the KCTCS Board of Regents.

"Any new building in the state, if you aren't prepared to open it, you shouldn't build it," Bean said. "It's like building a house, and then you're not able to pay the light bill." ...

...Their threats provoked a caustic response from State Rep. Harry Moberly, D-Richmond, chairman of the House budget committee. He was architect of the proposed state budget that the House approved last week, without including the 12 percent cut Gov. Steve Beshear had proposed for the state universities and community colleges.

"I'm not in the mood to hear whining from higher education about the budget," said Moberly ...

..."We've gone to great lengths to restore higher education" to its current funding level, he said, while some other parts of state government, such as the judiciary, still face budget woes...