The Governance We Deserve

From Kristen Esterberg and John Woodling, in Inside Higher Ed, write about "the real bitterness and enmity that existed between too many faculty and administrators, on both sides of the divide" and offer the results of some research on ways to lower the tension a bit:

No longer administrators, we returned to the faculty. But we remained concerned about how difficult it was to manage the university, let alone change it in fundamental ways. Trying to find an answer, we embarked on a research project that sought explanation in the identities, experiences, and careers of both administrators and faculty at public institutions. We interviewed 30 administrators and faculty members from public campuses in the Northeast. We mined our own experience. We read widely about higher education. We thought about what we were reading. We talked to a lot of people. What we present here is part of a book-length study of public higher education based on this research.