One of the professors at my former undergraduate institution in Texas was recently dismissed in a very shady way. One of the alumnae supporting the dismissal is a lawyer in Texas who says that because the school is in Texas (being an at-will or whatever you call it state) even if provisions in his contract w/ the university state otherwise, he could still be fired at any time without reason...is this true? He worked at the college for 17 years, attained the rank of Full Professor and had been granted tenure several years before. My question is: Is this correct? If it is, then what is the point of tenure!? My understanding of tenure is that you can only be fired for two reasons: 1) financial exigency on the part of the university and 2) moral turptitude.