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.
Did you see that Ward is not only claiming credit for other professors' written scholarship, but also copied other artists art work ?
He then sold some of the stuff on ebay and sold some copied art work directly. He got in trouble with ebay thru the copied ebay stuff.
When another sale was questioned by the direct purchaser, Ward said that it was not Ward's fault that the buyer did not know the art work was a fake.
Yeah, I think universities have to stop being for-profit institutions. The windfall they get from grants is really corrupting the academy in a profound way.