I honestly don’t think Barama was a REAL FULL Professor...I think on the WBEZ interview, he was referred to as a “Senior Lecturer”...
When I was in skool, the senior lecturer’s were NOT tenured professors...only lackies! to Fill in for the Profs.
Well, he calls himself “Prof. Obama” on the first page of his exam. So there you go..
Zero was not on the tenure track.
Lecturers are generally the guys that don’t quite make it all the way into the big leagues, but still hang around the college bubble because they can’t find anything better or just lack the initiative to get out there and do something else.