“The single most important factor preventing change in higher education is tenure.” Wow. That was the sentiment expressed in 2010 by Mark C. Taylor, then chair of Columbia University’s department of religion, and every critic of higher education in the United States seemed to agree with him. Tenure, they charged, was the place where deadbeat faculty could go for a rest cure, protected from critical standards, working as little as they could — and generally sending a once world-renowned system to the backwater, behind the rising tide of Asia and Europe. Not quite.

October 29, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post