April 18, 2003

The Age of Innocence

By STANLEY FISH

Administrators aren't paid to manage tax and tuition dollars; they're paid to tend an educational enterprise

A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend who is a dean at a private university. He had recently returned from visits to two public universities where he was being considered for a yet higher administrative post. In both instances he withdrew, in large part, he told me, because he had concluded that this was not a good time to be an administrator at a state-supported

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