<p>: professors are staying on way past retirement age (and keeping their appointments even when they are not doing any research or teaching more than one class) because they have tenure : !!!##****!!!</p>
<p>All organizations need to be refreshed over time; educational institutions where faculty and staff assume they have jobs for life, whatever their performance, are the ingredients of the institution’s downfall. </p>
<p>An economic downturn provides great cover for eliminating the 1%, 2%, 5% of staff who are not needed or are underperforming. It provides political cover.</p>