The Role of Expertise in Higher Education

If tenure was abolished, how would that change the face of universities and academic freedom be protected? It would destroy education in America, seriously, because suppose you have a very, very conservative state government that's funding the state universities. And if you've got a legislature that is filled with just say, I mean, ours, ours is, and I don't know. You might as well just have a preacher teaching this," she says.