Preface
1. The Growth of Administration.
2. What Administrators Do
3. Management Pathologies
4. The Realpolitik of Race and Gender.
5. There Is No Such Thing As Academic Freedom (For Professors)
6. Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University.
7. What is to be Done
Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include Downsizing Democracy, American Government: Power and Purpose, and We the People: An Introduction to American Politics.
"This book takes a hard, clear-eyed look, with few holds barred, at
the growing number and influence of full-time administrators in
colleges and universities. It recognizes the large increase in
government and other demands on the bureaucracy. But it dwells on
the manifest fact--too often slighted--that administrators have
their own fish to fry. Let us hope that his cautionary tale has a
wide impact."--Morton Keller, Professor Emeritus of History,
Brandeis
University
"During my nearly 60 years as a professor, I believe this is the
only comprehensive analysis of the academic civil war between the
professors and the deans. Ginsberg demonstrates why and how we're
losing--or have already lost."--Theodore J. Lowi, Professor of
American Institutions, Cornell University
"Ben Ginsberg knows a thing or two about academic bureaucracy. He
has had extensive experience with administrative impediments that
come between his ideas and their realization. Instead of ranting,
he has written The Fall of the Faculty, where he has employed his
political insight to examine administrative bloat in higher
education and to explain the many ways in which administrative
authority has elbowed aside faculty governance in the running
of
today's colleges and universities. As a recovering deanlet and
one-time acting dean, I know whereof he speaks."--Matthew A.
Crenson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Johns Hopkins
University
"In his lacerating "The Fall of the Faculty," Mr. Ginsberg argues
that universities have degenerated into poorly managed
pseudo-corporations controlled by bureaucrats so far removed from
research and teaching that they have barely any idea what these
activities involve. He attacks virtually everyone from overpaid
presidents and provosts down through development officers,
communications specialists and human-resource staffers but he
reserves his most bitter
scorn for the midlevel "associate deans" and "assistant deans" who
often have the most direct control over the faculty. Mr. Ginsberg
refers to them as "deanlets," but at my institution they are
often
called "ass. deans." The Fall of the Faculty" reads like a cross
between a grand-jury indictment and a call to arms. Yet as bracing
and darkly pleasurable as this call is, it is hard to imagine
professors joining the resistance with so few weapons at their
disposal."--The Wall Street Journal
"...an attach on administrators written by a distinguished
political scientist, Benjamin Giinsberg."--Anthony Grafton, NYROB
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