I'm surprised that tenure has survived as long as it has. Certainly professors with tenure want to maintain the status quo, but it seems like the supplicants ar

I'm surprised that tenure has survived as long as it has. Certainly professors with tenure want to maintain the status quo, but it seems like the supplicants are still willing to drink the Kool-Aid. A recent article titled Stripping a Professor of Tenure Over a Blog Post didn't get any discussion on HN. The professor seemingly was stripped of tenure on the whims of his dean. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9024754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9024754 OTOH a clown like Ward Churchill probably deserved to be fired. There's a place for legitimate "dissent" but IMO Churchill didn't deserve that protection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill