Over the years I have collected, for your amusement, a number of different descriptors and metaphors for a universities: “a group … Continued

One of the problems in being a university manager is this assumption that being in charge of all or part … Continued

Late last year I wrote about Burton Clark and the notion of “organizational sagas”; that is, the stories people in organizations…

I spent a couple of days out in Calgary this week at the annual meeting of Canadian Association of University … Continued

To really understand universities, you need to understand their cost structure.  And to understand their cost structure, you need to … Continued