A key element of the crisis engulfing universities is the breakdown in community between the academic staff & the managerial cadre (badly) running their institutions.
As Stefan Collini says: 'Members of the academic staff cease to be regarded as colleagues whose co-operation should be solicited; instead, they are treated as a disaffected workforce liable to make trouble if given a hint of the cuts being prepared by the senior management team'!
#universities #politics
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/stefan-collini/squadrons-of-pigs
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