[hosepipe]

[ Nope. Tenure is irrelevant. It begins with consumers, as with everything. ]

Denial is not a river in Egypt.. The consumers are serfs..
Its the administration's perks that must be overthrown..

The Education "ENRON" is LOOMING... can you hear it..
Just as with "ENRON" its the golden parachutes they are protecting..
Also; like "ENRON" its the higher-ups that must attacked..

The consumers are clueless.. like cross-eyed chickens..
They can cluck all they want they will lay eggs they have no choice in the matter, they are chickens afterall.. TENURE gathers the eggs.. and Socialism cooks the omelet..

[LS]

Dude, you are the one in denial. You admit you have not facts. You obviously are not in academia; haven't read Vedder's book; have no clue about the statistics. You have no idea how search committees work; why tenure actually protects conservatives; or why the process would be even worse for conservatives (if you don't change anything else) without tenure. Spouting off is one thing. Try some factual data.

Your answer is the consumers are stupid: this, of course, is what the Dems always say with every election loss. The consumers know exactly what they want, and right now they are emphasizing COST over value (i.e., the quality of the education).

There is NOTHING in tenure/hiring stats that indicates it would have much of an impact on the problems.