Education — Kentucky overrides veto to ease public college faculty terminations; major university leadership vacancies mount across the South and Midwest.

Education · 2026-04-17

TODAY'S SIGNAL — Three developments today converge on a single theme: the governance and workforce architecture of public higher education is shifting rapidly. Kentucky's legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto to let public colleges terminate faculty for "bona fide financial reasons," including low program enrollment — a significant erosion of traditional tenure protections that other…