Texas Senate approves bill that would end faculty tenure at public universities

Students walk through an area known as “The Quad” on the first day of the fall semester at Texas State University in San Marcos on Aug. 24, 2020. (Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune)

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A little more than a year after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick declared war on faculty tenure at the state’s public universities, the Texas Senate approved a bill Thursday that would bar schools from granting the benefit to newly hired professors.