Episode 47: Tenure Is Eroding

Lead Out Loud Podcast · Sep 20, 2023 · 21m

Tenure at academic institutions isn’t just a free speech protection, it is also embedded as part of the economic engine of a university. Tenured faculty generate research dollars and agree to teach in exchange for being able to conduct the research those dollars fund. But tenure is also very expensive to the institution, and as those institutions become less tolerant of ideas that don’t align with their political ideology, has the time for tenure come to an end?