The theory is that without tenure, staff can be fired for their opinions. Thus killing academic freedom, essential in some fields, well most really. I mean suppose some guy is working on a theory that would overturn someting their department chair had come up with? You think he'd stay on long without tenue. The downside is of course that lessor motivated members become like real government workers, instead of quasi government ones. The tenure system exists even at privately rnn institutions. My wife has it, and she works for a private college, not a state one. She wouldn't work for state school if they paid her twice as much. (Which they would not, if anything they tend to pay a bit less)
El Gato! Como esta?!