Partnering involves a profit interest, and it involves exclusion of other corporate partners. Perhaps the provider gave something in return for the extra help in cornering this lucrative market, but, if so, in all the budget and computer committees I sat on, not only was no such return ever reported to us, our questions on this were brushed aside and not directly and fully answered. This is one of the sources of our anger the extent to which such information is kept from us, unless we have the extra measure of energy to separately and carefully follow the issue. Most of us teaching four courses have no such excess of energy in the last decades of our teaching careers. When you consider the importance of faculty governance to the healthy development and growth of the university, this poorly disguised form of management by information control can only portend disastrous results for the university.
Education is lost as a goal in exchange for a focus on fair exchange.
This may be argued as fitting on a workshop floor, where work is readily assessed. It is ludicrous as measure of the work of teaching, which of necessity goes on in the more private sphere of the classroom. The proliferation of administrative titles and excuses for not teaching have grown steadily on the university campus, at least all of which I know. The operating theory seems to be that teachers won't teach unless we make them do so, so we have to supervise them closely to see that they do. He knows his graduate study wasn't bargain basement priced, and maybe not bargain-basement earned.