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Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep
"But having lived through the decline of tenure, I can see clearly that universities in which the majority of the faculty feel unsafe in terms of job security become places where no one feels safe to do anything that might risk upsetting someone." By Alice Dreger.
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Which is exactly what politicians want. Free thinkers are their greatest nemesis. Better to keep them under constant threat of losing their job and destroying their reputation so they behave.