There is a bill in the Louisiana Senate to end tenure at state schools. I am not sure quality faculty are going to hang around after that passes.
They'll move from state schools to private schools, because highly respected, well-performing teachers will be looking to work with other highly respected, well-performing teachers and well-regarded schools. This was already the case, but it will just result in further privatization.
Because Tulane has so many tenure-track offerings?
In materials, not physics (in my case). Tulane was also privatized in the 1880s and occupies a unique place in the state constitution with many functions as part of its formerly public nature (supervisory functions over state police, legislatively nominated scholarships, etc), but presumably still has enough influence to ensure this bill doesn't apply to it.
Kinda sucks but at least there will be some sort of competence-check. I paid $80000 for 50% of my profs to be overt progressive propagandists and I was too young and impressionable to really figure out what was going on. Credit to the Uni though, there was a physics prof who spent a lecture insisting climate change was not caused by humans whatsoever, so I guess there was a little balance.
And what grounds did this prof cite?
The other side of this is that it is brutally hard to obtain a post as a professor at a university (way more supply than demand), and professors having no protections at all might find themselves moving all over the country for whatever posts they can find when they get fired by some well-connected student who didn't like them saying the word "gay" or something.