As a student activist, hanging around the ombudsman's office, I read the A.A.U.P. manual, in which, right off the bat (or broom, as the case may be), the professorship exclaims their all-knowing all-seeing all-writing wisdom over all ... so much so, that no judge, no court, and, in my humble opinion, not much actual good writing has been able to touch them.
For, to impeach these regents, requires that words have meaning, substance, and tangibly, that is maintained from day to day, year to year, through the centuries.
Lest hot mean cold.
My personal belief, is that professors have run out of things to say, but they have not run out of money with which they burden everybody else.
First, they take your money, and then they make something that is worthless.
I say, we stop that.
Want to feed all those kids on that TV ad, from down in Central America?
Fire 10 professors.
Want health care for inner city kids?
Fire 100 professors.
Want to fix schools that are "crumbling?"
Fire 100 professors.
Why do "environmentally responsible" professors have air-conditioners, and air-conditioned $60,000 Volvos or Saabs?
If your board of directors and C.E.O. wandered into your area at work, and found that, "What do you do here?" amounts to the writing of professors (Mike Kinsley comes to mind), you would probably disappear in the next round of cuts, for not contributing to the output of the product in exchange for which the company notes that is has earned income.
Where in all that writing of the professorship, is the earned income, that is the money that other people worked hard for and were forced to give up, in order to continue the professors upkeep?
Yes, they have a scam going on. :^)