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by JoeAltmaier 3976 days ago
To start the flood of anecdotes, I'll suggest my old digital circuits professor who never returned homework, ignored the textbook and was never present for lab help. His grades always came out weeks late. And he started doing that long before he got tenure. Because he was a prolific researcher with lots of grant money coming in.

So tenure wasn't to blame - its an effect, not a cause.