MARCH 11, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH

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1. The Campus Cold War: Faculty vs. Administrators

by Lee Gardner, Chronicle of Higher Education

“If you’ve ever worked in higher education, you know the stereotypes. College administrators are soulless careerists brimming with will to power who ram through clueless decisions, whether the rest of the institution likes it or not. College faculty members, meanwhile, are myopic, overeducated children who take forever to do anything and throw tantrums anytime their routines are disrupted.

These caricatures are unfair to the actual people who run and teach at colleges. But they’ve only gained purchase in recent years. Behind closed doors, presidents are more likely to grumble about obstreperous, obstructionist professors. In faculty-senate meetings and other public forums, those professors are directing distrust, even disdain, at administrative leaders.

The two factions aren’t meant to move in lockstep, and they never have.”

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