In an essay in the LA Review of Books called “Whose University Is it Anyway,” Ron Srigley looks at the growing power of administrators, the shrinking autonomy of the faculty, and shifting uses of accountability. It seems Canadian universities are going though many of the same issues that we are experiencing here in the US.
A short except from a very long article:
I propose a test. A favorite trope among the administrative castes is accountability. People must be held accountable, they tell us, particularly professors. Well, let’s take them at their word and hold them accountable. How have they done with the public trust since having assumed control of the university?