For every Mindy McAdams there are 100 professors who don’t have a clue about the Web.

Even if journalism schools radically redesigned their curricula, would most of them be able to deliver a quality education with existing faculty? Yes, tenured professors should be constantly doing research in their field and becoming better teachers, but once a professor gets tenure, they don’t have to adapt to anything new.

Sure existing professors could attend some conferences and seminars, but would that make them qualified to be professors of online journalism? Professors are supposed to be experts, and journalism professors always come in with prior professional experience. A seminar doesn’t give someone professional experience.

It certainly doesn’t give someone the kind of experience that justifies the $45,000 — and rapidly rising — tuition at prestigious schools like Northwestern’s Medill. At many journalism schools the majority of professors are not tenured. But are there even enough qualified professors out there to fill the ranks of classes needed for modern journalism?

And would journalism schools be willing to get rid of the majority of their non-tenured faculty for new professors that had the skills and experience to teach the next generation of journalists how to excel in journalism?