Tenure Trouble

Professors don't want their cushy jobs after all:

Prestige translates into billions of dollars of cash every year. This is why Trump can suspend just a fraction of Columbia's grants and have it cost them half a billion dollars. If he went whole hog, about $4 billion would evaporate. That is just ONE school. Multiply that out to all the big colleges and universities and the scale of money involved in paying for prestige--and that is what all these government grants are really based on, not on expected results--is astronomical. Grantors and donors can't really evaluate the quality of education or any particular research--half of all scientific research is pure bunk right now, or even fraudulent--so the people distributing the money do it based on a reputation for quality. How's that working out for Higher Ed these days? Not so well, and much of the problem is the activism of staff or the low-performing hangers-on who got tenure and are now coasting as if they were public school teachers hiding behind the skirts of Randi Weingarten. No wonder College and University presidents secretly want tenure ditched. It has nothing to do with academic freedom--screaming "Kill the Jews" and "Decolonize America" may be free speech, but it certainly isn't ACADEMIC discourse--it is a grunt, not a reasoned position open for debate and contributes nothing that a masked, keffiyeh-wearing blue-haired trans activist couldn't add to the public discourse. Listen to an academic activist, and it's clear they aren't scholars researching or teaching but activists adding nothing to the search for truth. Unfortunately for these academic 'leaders," they helped create this cohort of screaming academic nonentities, and getting rid of tenure at prestigious universities is a pipe dream. These presidents are constrained by their own prior choices to please the academic mob, and now their primary job--begging for money--is made impossibly hard because they enabled a mob mentality in academia.

The mobsters in charge are reaping what they have sown...