Tenure isn’t a bad thing, but I would certainly modify how it is awarded.
A requirement of receiving tenure is that after receiving his/her bachelor’s degree, every candidate for tenure must have spent at least five years outside academia in the private sector. I would waive this for anyone who had spent the requisite five years as active duty in the armed forces, so long as they received an honorable discharge.
We would have a much better grounded and focused faculty that would be producing graduates with real world skills. Any university that had that policy would, within 20 years, have every one of its graduates snapped up by employers.
Tenure is dangerous. If it is preserved, the universities remain Leftist bastions....It has happened throughout history and that is why the Left exists today. They draw strength and refuge from the tenure system. Look at the supreme court. Same problem. The longer they are there , the longer the Leftist staff has to work on them. In the end, most just give up and go with the flow...