If tenure was removed, that would probably result in Universities having to pay more for professors no? I mean, part of the pay discrepancies between industry a

If tenure was removed, that would probably result in Universities having to pay more for professors no? I mean, part of the pay discrepancies between industry and academia is usually attributed to job security and benefits. Remove the job security and you need to compensate for that. What I'm getting at is, 15 tenure professors left does not put those universities in the black. Those low payed non-tenured professors will be asking for more or leaving. This article fails in my view. The quote about some guy not knowing what academics does with there time is hilarious. I work for a University as a programmer in a lab. I can tell you that they work pretty hard to obtain grants and new deals for advancing their research. I'm sure some slack off but that's like anything else. Theres a ton of dead weights in corporations today. The corporate world is not the panacea the media makes it out to be. Small companies are another story, they can't live with dead weight.