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Professors Remain Defiant as Conservative States Move to Restrict Tenure

Professors Remain Defiant as Conservative States Move to Restrict Tenure
Students sit on the steps of Wilson Library on the campus of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sept. 20, 2018. Jonathan Drake/Reuters
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
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Professors in North Carolina and other red states are lashing out against bills moving through Republican-led legislatures that would remove or weaken academic tenure and counter divisive political ideology.

Hundreds of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) professors signed a letter published on April 24 in the university’s student newspaper opposing a tenure bill and another bill requiring the teaching of the Constitution and America’s founding.
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
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Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.
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