Correct, only tenured Profs. Profs on the tenure track are similar to biglaw/accounting firm associates on the partner track.
Adjunct Profs who aren’t coming from industry doing it as a side job would be analogous to temp attorneys increasingly common in many biglaw firms.
Those coming from industry could be akin to of counsel…cept nowhere as highly paid unless they teach in a few fields where starting salaries are higher in order to attract adjuncts from industry with high salaries.
This Prof despite protestations is mainly doing it for himself because he was severely negatively impacted by the tenure denial which effectively means the academic career he was on the path for several years is effectively over unless he finds another university to offer him a job on the tenure track.
A denial which he knew was a possibility…especially considering serious questions raised about his teaching at a TEACHING CENTERED COLLEGE.
Kaepernick’s protest is mainly out of larger societal concerns about racial disparities and its negative…even lethal effects on African-Americans. Not because his career/personal financial interests were effectively jeopardized. In fact, Kaepernick has far more to lose by protesting over this larger societal issue than by conforming and thus…not protesting.