Recent flood of requests for faculty to “get involved” in institutional initiatives–most of which seem designed mainly to justify the existence of the administrative machinery that invented them.
A few years ago, a colleague shared that legendary clip of Steve Ballmer wildly chanting for developers, along with a brilliant comparison: university administrations have their own version–chanting for faculty.
We promised that whenever the institutional saturation reached critical levels, we’d watch it to decompress. Played it a couple of times this week.