Tags: Faculty, Administrators, Policy Makers   In recent years, several universities have reported that administrative salaries now account for a larger share of their budgets than faculty salaries. This reversal of priorities is not an accounting oddity. It is a reflection of how deeply higher education has shifted from an academic to a managerial culture. The university, once organized around teaching and scholarship, now exists primarily to sustain its own administrative m

Tags: Faculty, Administrators In a recent post, we discussed how tenure and academic freedom should not serve as shields for faculty espousing political opinions outside their academic expertise while on campus or in their professional capacity. The principle of tenure was never meant to justify partisan activism under the guise of scholarship. But the same conviction that guides this view, the belief that academic freedom must be grounded in fairness, also demands that we de

The principle of tenure has long been central to higher education. It is designed not to guarantee lifelong employment but to protect...

It is no secret, and in fact common knowledge, that undergraduate campuses and PUIs have faced an uphill struggle when competing for...

Tags: Faculty, Administrators, Policy Makers A Quick Opinion Piece from the PUI Connect Editorial There was a time when U.S....

Tags: Faculty, Administrators, Students, Policy Makers This is a brief opinion take on the changing role of professors in society. There...

Tags: Faculty, Administrators In Part 1 of this series, we explored what it means to work at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution (PUI),...