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There is a lot that will be overlooked when it comes to tenured professors. I've had lengthy discussions with several professors at Texas A&M who hold tenure and all have said that the system is totally broken regardless of the university.

Good professors don't get it because they don't publish enough while mediocre professors are tenured because they've written dozens of books and articles as well as brought the university millions of research dollars.

The only things I've ever heard of a professor at A&M being dismissed for are plagiarism except for one who was dismissed because he was convicted of several felonies and sent to prison. There is one professor who is known to sleep with his students (never been a complaint but it is the worst kept secret on campus) but he is tops in his field and brings in tens of millions in research dollars every year so the administration conveniently look the other way.