I always knew there was something terribly wrong with many of the professors at Auburn. While earning my BS in Industrial Management, I was required to take a Labor Relations course. The professor was so pro-union, we constantly butted heads. I mean, please, he was teaching future management and touting unions - it was beyond me.
Auburn is definetely a publish or perish university. Publish enough (regardless of the merit of the publication - the objective to have Auburn University credited) and you are the hero of your department and awarded tenure. Once these dolts get tenure, you can't get rid of them. Fortunately, the professor mentioned above and a few others did not receive tenure as I reiterated my experiences each day at lunch with my father, the dean.
What are you saying? Are you calling for the abolition of academic freedom? If so, the conservative academics will be the first to suffer.