Tenure: what leeches and ticks have

Max Boot calls for abolishing tenure:

The primary practical effect of tenure is to make universities almost ungovernable. The people ostensibly in charge � presidents and trustees � come and go; the faculty remains, serene and untouchable. This helps to explain some of the dysfunctions that mar big-time universities, such as the overemphasis on publishing unintelligible articles and the under-emphasis on teaching undergraduates. Armies of junior faculty and graduate-student drudges have been enlisted to assume the bulk of the teaching load because most of the tenured grandees think that instructing budding stockbrokers and middle managers is beneath them. And there is almost nothing that administrators can do about it because mere laziness is no grounds for removing someone with a lifetime employment guarantee.

It seems to me that the only legitimate argument for tenure is to protect freedom of speech and thought, but that end could be reached with more narrowly tailored rules. It's really a basic law of human nature that sinecures make for less productivity and quality.

If I ever have money to donate, it won't go to a university with the likes of Ward Churchill on its faculty. The fact that this bozo was allowed to rise to the level of department head tells me that there was no judgment in management.