A new critique highlights expanding state-level changes that could weaken tenure protections in public colleges and universities. The opinion points to a proposed Tennessee bill that would allow tenured professors to lose jobs based on a single administrator’s decision with limited contractual protections, taking effect July 1 if signed. The piece also cites related actions in Oklahoma—an executive order eliminating tenure at regional universities and community colleges—and legislative assaults in North Dakota and Kentucky. Faculty governance and peer-review rights are central to the argument that academic freedom protections are being hollowed out through procedural restructuring.