The other Half of Wisdom

Tyrannized by trivia, captured by ceremony, inundated by information, smothered by structure that college administrators are more prisoner than leader is a familiar theme in higher education. The lack of significant personal leadership is suggested as the principal reason for why colleges and universities tend to move in straight lines, getting bigger but not necessarily better. And now some institutions do not even enjoy the conventional benchmark of progress growth. If in earlier years, academic administrators could survive as institutional midwives, helping colleges do what most of them would do anyway, this is not a style that most of us will enjoy in the years ahead. What factors inhibit the exercise of leadership in our colleges and universities? There are no simple answers. Perhaps one answer is that administrative performance is not anchored in a sufficient knowledge base. The human costs of style aberrations in academic administration are

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