Some who come to the academy from other organizations--business
organizations, say--think they have learned things in business that will
improve the operation of a college, or a college department.
Since they do not understand what a college professor does, what his work
is, and how it differs from that of an accountant, or a salesman, or a
computer programmer, they are started at the hostility and resistance they
evoke.
And so they conclude that managing academics is like herding (pick your
animal.)
(My experience includes service as a department chair, a dean, and a
college president for 20 years.)
Steve Eskow
>>managing academics is like trying to make pigs fly
>Yeah, or like herding squirrels. ;-)
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