January 14, 2005

A Great Divide Between Administrators and Faculty Members

To the Editor:

Faculty members should thank Stanley Fish for providing a vivid illustration of the validity of their fears that university administrators have only a tenuous and intermittent grip on reality ("What Did You Do All Day?," Careers, November 26).

He argues that deans deserve much higher salaries than faculty members because they work so much harder and their work is so much more important.

My own observations over the last 40 years are that many

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