Alabama House Passes Bill on Tenured Professors

0:00It's April 1st. This is Birmingham News Today, AI-powered stories from your city. Alabama's house just passed House Bill 580, letting public universities fire tenure professors after due process, but it skips the university of Alabama and Auburn University systems. The Bill forces schools to set up advisory-only faculty-sentents with post-tenure reviews and no real power on big decisions. It wipes out all existing faculty-sentents by October 1st, unless they match the new rules and get border approval, sponsored by Rep Proofle. Troy Stubbs, the measure also shields universities from accrediting backlash and pass with an 82-18 vote. Republicans cheered it as a smart shift of power to trustees and leaders who face real accountability while Democrats slammed it as government. Meddling in academia, hinting at targets diversity efforts without saying so outright. Lawmakers tweaked the bill to drop some heavy rules and clarify that big players like Alabama and Auburn aren't forced to follow, though state funding.

1:02Could nudge them along. Stubbs says it's about standardizing how these groups form anyway. The bill heads to the Senate Committee tomorrow, aiming to make sure taxpayer cash at state schools goes towards solid policies on tenure and teaching.