Dead Wood

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Dead Wood

A popular term for a person—e.g., a professor, or other tenured academic—who is no longer effective or useful to his/her employing institution, and who cannot be removed from post or payroll—e.g., because of tenure—in order to free the position for a more qualified or innovative person

dead wood

Academia A popular term for a person–eg, a professor, or other tenured academic whose function has been served but who can't be removed from a position or payroll–eg, because of tenure–to free the position for a more qualified, innovative, or often younger person

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