Faculty self-governance breeds insularity, so outsiders should govern universities

Evidence

A college community—faculty, and their disciples, the students—is a cohesive group, sharing to remarkable degree a common cultural life, similar educational backgrounds, and even fairly similar political views. If this community were to govern the college exclusively (as was true at Oxford and Cambridge for several centuries), the college sooner or later would become “academic” in some undesirable senses—precious, narrow, removed from unpleasant realities, and downright lazy. The trustees are men of affairs, and bring to the college decisions an element of the virility and realism of the non-college world. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 117

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the current ‘academic freedom vs. DEI’ and tenure debates, where the question of who governs the university stands at the center. — connects to: Stigler rejected collegiate self-governance as a safeguard of academic freedom — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 138

Broader Connections

• Stigler rejected collegiate self-governance as a safeguard of academic freedom #corroborates (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 138