Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Government Program of Advanced Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University.

This book takes a hard, clear-eyed look, with few holds barred, at the growing number and influence of full-time administrators in colleges and universities. It recognizes the large increase in government and other demands on the bureaucracy. But it dwells on the manifest fact--too often slighted--that administrators have their own fish to fry. Let us hope that his cautionary tale has a wide impact.

• Preface ; 1. The Growth of Administration. ; 2. What Administrators Do ; 3. Management Pathologies ; 4. The Realpolitik of Race and Gender. ; 5. There Is No Such Thing As Academic Freedom (For Professors) ; 6. Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University. ; 7. What is to be Done

Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Government Program of Advanced Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University.

This book takes a hard, clear-eyed look, with few holds barred, at the growing number and influence of full-time administrators in colleges and universities. It recognizes the large increase in government and other demands on the bureaucracy. But it dwells on the manifest fact--too often slighted--that administrators have their own fish to fry. Let us hope that his cautionary tale has a wide impact.

• Preface ; 1. The Growth of Administration. ; 2. What Administrators Do ; 3. Management Pathologies ; 4. The Realpolitik of Race and Gender. ; 5. There Is No Such Thing As Academic Freedom (For Professors) ; 6. Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University. ; 7. What is to be Done

Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Government Program of Advanced Academic Programs at Johns Hopkins University.

This book takes a hard, clear-eyed look, with few holds barred, at the growing number and influence of full-time administrators in colleges and universities. It recognizes the large increase in government and other demands on the bureaucracy. But it dwells on the manifest fact--too often slighted--that administrators have their own fish to fry. Let us hope that his cautionary tale has a wide impact.

• Preface ; 1. The Growth of Administration. ; 2. What Administrators Do ; 3. Management Pathologies ; 4. The Realpolitik of Race and Gender. ; 5. There Is No Such Thing As Academic Freedom (For Professors) ; 6. Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University. ; 7. What is to be Done