We need to make hard decisions before they’re made for us. Part 2 (long overdue) of my series on how to (and how not to) reform higher education
In other words, academics are saying: “let us govern ourselves”, and our critics are saying: “we don’t trust you to govern yourselves because you’re not doing it”.
So, academics can best defend shared governance by showing that we can actually govern ourselves.
Does that require agreeing with every charge the Trump administration and others have leveled against us? No. But it does require—at a minimum—enforcing the rules and standards that we already claim to be enforcing. Here are some specific suggestions.