Such people manage the educational enterprise. Some of us are teachers, who try to discover truth and impart learning. Such is the theoretical division of labor in a university. But of course things are not really like that. The labor is not actually divided.
Administrators try to allocate money to keep the programs active and the teachers fed.
Their work is often hindered by demands they cannot meet, demands from the teachers themselves as well as demands from the great public outside. Even they, however, have been breaking the academic barriers, daring to question teachers and administrators about the quality and content of their education. My meaning will be clearer if I review two issues that arose this year. The first involves a matter brought to the Senate at the Chancellor's initiative. Late this spring, after the legislature and the governor had permitted higher education to, go into the next fiscal year poorly fed, clothed, and housed, the Chancellor suggested that perhaps the Senate could appropriately react to the situation.