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chronicle.com/interactives/i… via @chronicle tagging a few, especially those bearing admin roles so we can restart a big discussion @gotonura @hishamzerriffi @randall_kramer @murraybrianc @PamJagger @dickinson_katie @GunnarKohlin @arjendu @KAGoss @loribennear @DeondraRose @mullinmeg
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1/3. Intriguing quotes ."Objectively, this tradeoff makes sense, but it’s so foreign to most ..professors that it can seem ludicrous — more parody than pragmatism. This is because in the modern academic environment professors act more like middle managers than monastics."
2/3 Society has been engulfed by a crisis of concentration that has hit higherEd hard. Our time & attention have shifted from the specialized intellectual tasks that directly produce value to busywork, e.g., managing inboxes and nonessential admin.
3/3 the real costs of administrative work are currently hidden in ways that don’t immediately show up on university balance sheet. Interrupted profs produce less research & spend less time innovating in classrooms.That reality doesn’t directly impact revenue & is hard to measure
