belarius
@belarius

However, the median result is almost certainly "close to impossible" for most institutions if that's the only grievance. "Written to mislead" is going to be really hard to litigate, since academics are (a) often wrong, (b) theoretically capable of changing their minds, and thus (c) can always hide behind the fig leaf of "that was my educated opinion at the time."

At the end of the day, tenure is a morally neutral policy - it protects reformers and scoundrels alike, provided they abide by the relevant bylaws. (e.g., haven't broken state/federal laws, haven't falsified research, etc.)


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

these days? probably impossible. the offending prof will simply politicize the matter no matter how sordid it is, suddenly there'll be conservative backers at their elbow, and they'll be able to keep the matter "controversial" into eternity. barring some sort of miraculous transformation of intellectual discourse, I guess... ~Chara

Nearly impossible. Unless you’ve got hard evidence of them clearly and maliciously committing crimes that will damage the university’s reputation in a calculable way, tenure is pretty ironclad.