Why Can’t Trustees and Professors Get Along? |
College and university faculty sometimes regard initiatives by trustees as ill-informed meddling in their business, while trustees often think that the faculty is making a terrible mess of the school. Is there a way of bridging this divide?
In today’s Martin Center article, Professor Michael Behrent argues that there isn’t. The two groups for the most part come from very different backgrounds and see the world from different perspectives.
Trustees and faculty often take diverging positions on the key challenges facing the modern university: salaries, funding, educational priorities, student activism, viewpoint diversity, and shared governance. In recent years, the longstanding........