Just an anecdote... a professor whose classes I've taken, which were fantastic, recently got tenured. In the liberal arts, too! I like to think that tenure isn

Just an anecdote... a professor whose classes I've taken, which were fantastic, recently got tenured. In the liberal arts, too! I like to think that tenure isn't quite dead yet. Depends on the college, naturally. (I deliberately use the word "college" instead of "university"; I find that the liberal arts college at my university is more organized than the computer science department.) Eventually the college loan bubble will burst, and universities will no longer be able to be run like businesses.