"Tenure renders U.S. colleges less competitive on the world stage by making it difficult to get rid of a faculty's deadwood and reallocate labor from less popular disciplines to those in rising demand."
"Tenure makes too many professors less innovative than they now need to be, at a time in which AI is writing term papers and classrooms are often held as Zoom meetings."
"Despite the shrinking half-lives of curricula and teaching methods, tenured professors are not under the gun to overhaul their beliefs, curriculum and instructional methods."
Tenure is criticized for making U.S. colleges less competitive globally by preventing the removal of ineffective faculty. It also stifles innovation among professors, who are not pressured to update their teaching methods or curricula. The author, a long-time critic of tenure, has declined tenure offers as a protest and continues to advocate against it, emphasizing the need for accountability in academia, especially in the face of evolving educational demands and technologies like AI.
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