A tenured professor was fired with a hearing. Why? Illustration by The Chronicle; photos from Daniel Pollack-Pelzner and Timothy D. Sofranko This week Daniel Pollack-Pelzner found out he was fired from Linfield University when his MacBook froze and a message said he was locked out. He couldn't get into his university email, and an auto-reply from his personal account to his Linfield address said, “Daniel Pollack-Pelzner is no longer an employee of Linfield University.” Pollack-Pelzner was a tenured English professor. He'd taught at the university for more than a decade. And without a hearing or warning, he was fired on Tuesday afternoon.