The tenure-track process usually takes 6 years. That is the time to weed out incompetent or unproductive faculty. Some universities have "post-tenure review" to create anxiety on the part of tenured professors.
It is hard to measure "productivity" when academic fields vary greatly. "Flagship" public universities have different expectations for quantity of publications compared to universities that put teaching first. Not all publications are equal in value.
Given what I have seen of academic administrators, I don't think enhancing their power over the faculty will make for better universities (not that I think that all administrators are bad).
Some egregious cases involving "free speech zones" and "triggering" have made the news, and there are no doubt other cases, but it may be too early to say that they represent the norm on college campuses.
>>Some egregious cases involving “free speech zones” and “triggering” have made the news, and there are no doubt other cases, but it may be too early to say that they represent the norm on college campuses.<<
Until university administrators develop enough backbone to discipline students who shout down conservative speakers, refusing to let them be heard, I say keep cutting the budget. At some point either they’ll wake up and start doing their job (encouraging all sides of an argument to be heard) or they will find themselves with zero budgets and we can start over again.
This nonsense of preventing conservative speakers from being heard on so-called “liberal” campuses has got to stop. “Triggering” and “free-speech zones” are just symptoms of the larger problem, which is that many “liberals” have become exceptionally intolerant of the views of others.
Walker is about the only conservative politician I know of who goes after the Left’s primary funding source, i.e., our (taxpayer) money. If they’re going to subsist on the taxpayer’s dollar, then permit all sides to be heard or expect that dollar to disappear.