There is nothing more unequal than equal treatment of unequal people. Mistakes are the raw material of learning. Monkeying with them, tinkering with them, and improving on them is what learning is all about. When two people think the same about everything, one of them is not necessary. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control.
That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. The fewer the people who care whether it goes right or wrong, the greater the certainty it will go wrong. Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through who will have to let go of what when change occurs. Growing pains, potential embarrassment, and criticism should not be justifications for failing to move forward in providing students the best learning opportunities and nurturing academic environment possible.