The Chronicle: Downturn Threatens the Faculty’s Role in Running Colleges
Professors are losing their grip. Tough economic times are leading administrators to propose swift changes that short-circuit faculty governance, long a prized principle that gives professors wide-ranging authority over educational matters.
The results, faculty members say, are hastily conceived plans that reorganize academic programs, decrease professors’ roles in shaping the curriculum, and jeopardize tenure applications — all done with little advice from the faculty, in the name of saving money.
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