By Jonathan Penner, UA Profesor of English Pima County is getting a new university. They can still be fired for incompetence, but not for political or personal reasons. The Board of Regents is, in fact, now considering whether tenure should be kept or dumped system-wide. Here are seven reasons to keep it.
Tenure protects faculty from unjust dismissal.
The ebb and flow of cultural warfare. It's that so much of knowledge itself has now been politicized. Dropping tenure would hurt the universities. In teaching, easy graders would have an immense survival advantage. Realistic grading often generates student complaints.