I do occasionally feel--hence the Aydelotte's thought on consultancy--that some administrators also migrate away from older faculty who know too much about how the sausage gets made. It is easier to manipulate outcomes when folks haven't gone round and round a few times. But also that gravitation is partly because of what you observe: th…
I do occasionally feel--hence the Aydelotte's thought on consultancy--that some administrators also migrate away from older faculty who know too much about how the sausage gets made. It is easier to manipulate outcomes when folks haven't gone round and round a few times. But also that gravitation is partly because of what you observe: that knowledge sometimes deprives people of their equanimity--and that in turn sometimes curdles into just being terminally frustrated with everything at the expense of younger faculty who need to inhabit the institution as their own.
I do occasionally feel--hence the Aydelotte's thought on consultancy--that some administrators also migrate away from older faculty who know too much about how the sausage gets made. It is easier to manipulate outcomes when folks haven't gone round and round a few times. But also that gravitation is partly because of what you observe: that knowledge sometimes deprives people of their equanimity--and that in turn sometimes curdles into just being terminally frustrated with everything at the expense of younger faculty who need to inhabit the institution as their own.