>What if people at that institution get tenure even if they aren't very good at the work? In modern academia, there are hundreds of aspirants for each tenure-t

>What if people at that institution get tenure even if they aren't very good at the work? In modern academia, there are hundreds of aspirants for each tenure-track job. To both get a job and then get tenure means you've been peer-reviewed as excellent dozens of times over since finishing school. >After all the whole point of tenure is to protect people from getting fired regardless of how bad their peer-judged performance is. No, the point of tenure is to protect people from getting fired when they have controversial political opinions like, "Stop gutting state university funding".