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signs to some people-have created the wrong incentives and
thus attracted some of the wrong people into the humble halls of
these small not-for-profit colleges. These latecomers tend to think
the organizational structure of the college should be a pyramid,
not a circle.
Much ado has been made about administrative creep and
administrative bloat at big universities across the country, the
proliferation of vice presidents and deans and deanlets and
directors and assistant directors and supervisors and others with
executive-sounding or middle-manager puffed-up titles.4 Those
sprawling multiversity Leviathans probably need, for their many
divisions and operations and revenue streams, large bureaucracies and an overarching managerial structure and several sets
of complexly furcated organizational flow charts that start to
resemble on paper tall and wide Christmas trees. But that cancerous disease-of a burgeoning and expensive administrative
apparatus über alles-has infected small colleges, too, and its
damaging effects are particularly pernicious there.
An autonomous managerial class has emerged whose immediate and ulterior interests are occupational as opposed to educational (a distinction that ought not to be collapsed), and whose
mission is to serve administrative purposes as opposed to teaching purposes (another distinction that ought not to be elided).
Perhaps worst of all, the management model of organization, in
trying to bring small colleges into the fold of purportedly national
"best practices" and procedures, is destroying the distinctiveness,
the localism, the teacherliness, the very raison d'etrê, of small colleges, one by one, all across America. Those colleges rich enough
to compete for students and brand recognition with the likes of
Stanford and Princeton may survive the last shakeout, but I'm
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