Whatever would cause a tenured professor to move to industry?
The school has never had a tenured black female professor.
It has never had a black woman as a tenured professor.
The real questions are: How did a guy like this get to be a tenured professor in the first place?
In the education school, 39 percent of the tenured professors are women.
He was the first tenured professor to be dismissed in the school's 92-year history, university officials said.
He also holds an academic position at the university as a tenured professor of law.
Since 1988 he has directed the program and is currently a tenured full professor.
Only one tenured professor at the university has ever been fired (in 1983 or 1984, nobody seems to remember which).
"The tenured professor has an unusual and even a dangerous amount of power," she said.
