Against Quote by Ben Shapiro

“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at the universities,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the…

— Ben Shapiro

My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That's why I got…

— Jalen Rose

I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

— Francis Fukuyama

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

— Jack Welch

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“Accountability measures allow administrators to require the faculty to “teach to the test,” rather than devise the curriculum according to its own judgment. In…

— Benjamin Ginsberg

“......philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization....but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it…

— Isaiah Berlin

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public…

— Henry Giroux