February 25, 2005

Tenure protects nothing

Eugene Volokh still thinks that tenure is worthwhile because it protects non-lefty academics on campus.

Finally, if tenure is abolished, and universities cut down academic freedom protections to the minimum that the First Amendment demands (or the Supreme Court reverses its First Amendment protection for government employee speech), do we really think that only extreme anti-Americans will be fired? Or would it be likelier that the overwhelmingly left-wing faculties and administrations will fire lots of professors on the right -- including people who express eminently legitimate views, just on topics that are unpopular with the left?

The problem with this idea is that tenure somehow has protected non-lefty academics. The reality not quite what he makes it out to be. Tenure does not protect non-lefties, it only slows down the rate of attrition. Seeing how the academy has treated Ward Churchill v. Larry Summers, it is patently obvious to me that a young aspiring right of center professor would have to create a body of work that he fundamentally does not agree with simply to attain tenure. What are the odds that any right of center Ethnic studies professor would have received tenure over Ward Churchill?

The only way that we are going to fix our public university system is if we make the entire administrations of the public university system accountable to the electorate. Exactly how many presidents and regents boards will tolerate rampant anti-americanism on campus when they realize that their career survival means avoiding the attack ad with their picture right next to that of a raving lunatic like Churchill? How long will speech codes last when their anti-democratic nature is subject to indirect voter approval every four years or so? Right now, the link between the university and the public at large is very indirect. We need to cut a link or two between academia and the public that funds it.

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