(AP) — The University of Hawaiʻi’s board has deferred a proposal to modify the school’s tenure system after dozens of faculty members criticized the effort. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports the Board of Regents voted to refer the recommendations to a special ad hoc committee for further discussion. The proposals would have given deans and other administrators greater input in the five-year review of tenured faculty members. They would have also reserved tenure for faculty who actively engage with students in the classroom. The faculty union and individual faculty rallied against the proposals. The regents received more than 600 pages of written testimony slamming the proposed changes.

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