Published: May 23, 2022
By: Piper Hutchinson, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE – The House gave final passage Monday to a resolution to study tenure policies at universities in Louisiana.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 6, sponsored by Sen. Stewart Cathey, R-Monroe, creates the Task Force on Tenure in Postsecondary Education. The task force would report back to lawmakers with suggestions on changing tenure policies in the state.
The resolution passed the House on a 60-30 vote.
The language suggests that Cathey, acting in line with Republican lawmakers in other states, is concerned about possible political indoctrination of college students.
“Postsecondary students should be confident that they are being exposed to a variety of viewpoints, including those that are dissenting,” the resolution reads. The resolution seeks to ensure that “faculty members are not using their courses for the purpose of political, ideological, religious or anti-religious indoctrination.”
Rep. Polly Thomas, R-Metairie, who has a Ph.D. in educational psychology, spoke against the resolution.
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