Fighting Back Against “The War on Tenure”

Politicians implementing checks on tenure are solving a problem that “didn’t need fixing in the first place,” Das Acevedo argues.

Cambridge University Press | Deepa Das Acevedo

At least five tenured faculty members have been terminated or put on leave over comments they made on social media following the killing of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk. As tenured professors, in theory they should have some of the strongest job security protections in the country, especially when it comes to freedom of expression. But the speed with which they were punished for their speech suggests an erosion of tenure protections years in the making.

In her new book, The War on Tenure (Cambridge University Press), Deepa Das Acevedo , a legal anthropologist and associate professor of law at Emory