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Friday, February 03, 2006
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Revolving Door In this sensible essay that appeared a number of years ago in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a veteran university administrator noted that “the overwhelming majority of the campus -- with the exception of the relatively few activists among the faculty and student populations -- do not care about or take notice of corporate headquarters, known as the university administration,” and that “[e]ven when I began my faculty career, the administration was largely off my radar.” This is also UD’s experience. But the writer mentions a recent trend in university administration so grossly obvious that even oblivious UD has noticed it: The “rapid turnover in deans, vice presidents, and presidents.” You’re not kidding! She might be wrong, but it seems to UD that the deans at her own university have come and gone with such frequency in the last ten years or so as to make the head spin. |