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I think you’re probably right. My relationship with academia is shallower than yours. I served on a Board of Governors. I heard a great deal anecdotally from faculty about intended assaults on academic freedom. I never heard anything from the alleged assaulters. Yet I saw frequent evidence of what I perceived to be self-serving and overly protective conduct by both faculty and administration. So, it’s a question of degree with academic freedom being acknowledged as the more important value. If , as you suggest, academic freedom is under constant assault then tenure is justified but if the alleged attacks on academic freedom are mainly fair comment or legitimate skepticism and, at the same time there is deteriorating rigour in peer assessment processes perhaps the question tenure should be reviewed.

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