Faculty spend most of their time outside the classroom, helping students, conducting research and helping those in the community, state, nation and even throughout the world. One of the problems may be that faculty have the ability to govern their own time. Tenure is not lifetime job security. Faculty can be removed for just cause. And tenure does not mean you have a cushy job.
Tenure protects people who are workaholics.
And tenure allows you to teach what is relevant. Sense of disbelief Hendrich remembers having a sense of disbelief during her ordeal. I remember thinking, 'This is so stupid. But, even knowing what she knows now, Hendrich says she still would have said what she did. There are times when we need to say things that aren't popular, but the people in the state need to know it.