Management (or Lack Thereof)
[the_ad id=”12740″] There are steady complains about over-management or micro-management in universities. And, sometimes, there’s a lot of truth to the complaints. But I argue that in North America, there’s a pretty good case that universities are under-managed, and that an awful lot of the sector’s problems can be traced to under-management. When it comes to management, North American universities are quite different than, say, Australian and UK ones. To over-generalize only a little bit, we only manage the institutions;