This is a stupid article. For one, tenure is on a huge decline among most universities (and even more so in professional schools). The most laughable thing thou

This is a stupid article. For one, tenure is on a huge decline among most universities (and even more so in professional schools). The most laughable thing though is believing that removing tenure will encourage teaching. What? My dad has a saying -- you're only as good as your last grant. My school charges $50k per student per academic year, a decent portion of which goes to fixed costs. You know what keeps the lights on? Not student tuition. We recently sold IP rights for Lyrica to drug companies for $700 million. We have ~8,000 students. You do the math. I have said it before and I will say it again: major research universities are not about teaching students. Harvard isn't making the big bucks for its endowment through simple education. Getting rid of tenure doesn't help any of that. If anything, it removes the option the tenured professors have of focusing on teaching. That said, if tenure disappears I don't really care. I would hope that it would cause universities to decide to pay people other than the tenure track professors decent wages but I really don't see any chance of that no matter what way this goes.