Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, writing in Inside Higher Education: “At the same time that grades have become inflated, another kind of inflation has affected our campuses. I call it the ‘vice presidentialization’ of higher education.That trend is a sign of a shift in power from faculty to administrators, who are focused on protecting and managing their college’s brand. It is another sign of the growing administrative sector in American colleges and universities.”
More on the subject from Adrian Lenardic here.
