Carrol speaks the truth here. When a friend becomes an administrator,
he or she becomes a former friend. The level of hypocrisy and outright
corruption is remarkable. We have a division chairman who actually sees
patients (he is a psychologist) in his academic office and leaves
academic meetings to do this. He and the dean may be palying footsie,
and she is not going to do anything about this deplorable ethical
breach. One of hundreds of stories I could tell you.
Michael Yates
Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> ann li wrote:
> >
> > I, too have mixed emotions about our status as "cultural workers" in
> > academe, since I was a dean last year and now am teaching part-time,
> > partially in the reserve army of distance learning educators, waiting for
> > yet another opportunity in administration, hoping to make a difference,
> >
>
> I don't know -- university administration (regardless of intentions) is
> close if not over the borderline of that lumpen-bourgeosie consisting of
> cops, prison guards, CIA, career military officers, upper corporate
> management in which the position, not how it is carried out, is
> anti-working class. I've been connected with universities for 54 years
> now and have never met an administrator who I would care to take my
> coffee breaks with. There may be exceptions, but adminstration is more
> corrupting than money.
>
> Carrol
