A new policy and legal analysis warns that tenure protections are under coordinated attack in multiple states, describing changes that would reduce peer-review safeguards and increase administrator discretion in faculty termination decisions. The report argues that weakening tenure can erode academic freedom by limiting procedural protections before dismissal. It points to proposed Tennessee legislation, Oklahoma’s executive actions eliminating tenure at certain institutions, and Kentucky provisions that could allow governing boards to terminate tenured faculty on grounds tied to enrollment or “misalignment” of revenue and costs with short notice. Across the states cited, the central higher-ed governance impact is the transfer of termination authority away from faculty processes—potentially altering faculty risk profiles, governance expectations, and institutional compliance planning.