Republicans take aim at professor tenure in battle over intellectual diversity

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Republicans are advancing their effort to elevate intellectual diversity by challenging the tenure system for professors.

Lawmakers in several states are looking to undercut left-wing dominance of higher education by regulating tenure, which gives certain professors institutional job security, by requiring professors to be assessed on things like free expression, inquiry, and intellectual diversity.

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