This reads like a refutation of Mark Taylor's "Crisis in Higher Education," a new book that holds tenure and the organization of academic departments largely re

This reads like a refutation of Mark Taylor's "Crisis in Higher Education," a new book that holds tenure and the organization of academic departments largely responsible for the declining quality of American universities. The Fox News angle that the writer leads off with is a giant red herring. The problems with tenure have little to do with professors' politics (since employees already have laws protecting them based on their political beliefs). It has more to do with paying professors millions of dollars in salary and benefits for decades after their most productive years have ended.