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It would be even more telling to show the amount of money spent on
salaries and trappings for administration.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/28/2014 06:55 AM, Ian K via
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<div>I want to echo Carl's point about the "yahoos" in the
administration. I think part of what Carl's comment
underlines is the systemic problem. Not just a few bad
apples. I want to go a step further. Wise's decision and the
board's univocal support raises other questions about
administration altering the value system of higher
education. This has become clear to me as I recently took a
faculty position elsewhere. The power of administrators.<br>
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Academic administrations, no matter the personal knowledge
or wisdom, can become a conservative force by the nature of
the position. They have little investment in "high-minded"
notions bound up with free inquiry. It, it is more properly
called "it," is a class for whom good management is an end
in itself. As a conservative force, Wise protects the
University (the donor base in mind) from political
controversy and upheaval. She chose "speech decorum" to
rationalize the pass on Salaita, though it was content
rather than form that triggered the job withdrawal. "It is
not what he said but how he said it," they would have us
believe. It is happenstance that the admin chose to police
speech decorum when the speech itself lined up with the
political hegemon. Wink.<br>
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The issue is the role of administration as a proportionate
sector of education labor/cost. Admin takes the larger
salaries. It increasingly soaks up the total funds available
to universities, diverting more to itself than to instruction.
It also governs its own growth by shifting spending priorities
toward more layers of bureaucracy and away from teaching
resources. The Salaita episode draws a vivid picture of this
process taking place at the level of values as well: how we
value instructors. It is part of the administrative eclipse of
the teaching university. <br>
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Evidence of the inflation is important: <br>
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href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/administrators_ate_my_tuition031641.php?page=all">administration-to-student
ratios over time</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true">1975: <br>
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1 administrator . . . 84 students <br>
1 staff member . . . 50 students. <br>
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2005: <br>
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1 administrator . . . 68 students <br>
1 staff member . . . 21 students. </a><br>
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<div>By some metrics, Illinois grants more funding for
administration than teaching resources . . . including faculty
salary. <br>
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Carl notes that this kind of political-academic silencing has
a history back to the world wars. I agree. But the late
20th-century self-aggrandizement and bloat of administrative
functions at large in higher ed is something new and clearly
relevant. The two are linked and we witness it in decisions
about radical politics. The problem is not the wisdom of
Chancellors. The problem is in the power over the value system
represented by Chancellor (and staff members). <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:56 PM,
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<div>No, they are not yahoos. This came about because of
pressure from Israeli apologists and defenders on an
unwise chancellor and others of the administration. As
for the Board of Trustees, who can have Trust in them to
uphold academic freedom and the higher values of
society?</div>
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<p>I think this is largely right, except for
the characterization of the UIUC
administration as "a bunch of know-nothing
yahoos" - as if their personal failings
account for the university's hypocrisy in
regard to academic freedom. </p>
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<div>If we agree with that ungenerous
assessment, we have to conclude that
American universities have generally been
run by "know-nothing yahoos" through a
century of violations of academic freedom,
from World War I through Vietnam. That may
well be the case, but I think the problem
is more political than personal. It will
not be solved by appointing "good guys" as
administrators, in the academy or the
polity. But that would be a place to
start.
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Reading the News-Gazette yesterday
was like reading the "Stephen
Salaita protest news."
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<div>The department of American
Indian studies has voted
no-confidence in Chancellor
Wise. The English department may
follow suit. Other departments
are considering similar action.</div>
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<div>What I suspect is happening,
in part, is that the boycott of
the University of Illinois is
working, in the sense that it's
drawing national and
international attention,
especially among academics, to
the idea that there is a grave
threat to the principles of free
speech and academic freedom at
the University of Illinois. And
a lot of writing about this is
also mentioning the Kilgore
case, to establish the idea that
there is problem in the
University of Illinois
Administration that runs deeper
than the Salaita case. </div>
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<div>I suspect that part of what
is happening is that academics
around the world are writing to
their friends on the U of I
faculty and saying, "What's
going on?" And U of I faculty
are reading in the academic
press that their University has
become a laughingstock, the kind
of place where a modern-day
Bertrand Russell couldn't get a
job, because the University
Administration is run by a bunch
of know-nothing yahoos. And this
is impelling them to action. </div>
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<div>This is very positive. Good
things may yet come of this, if
the pressure continues to
increase. </div>
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