ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that both angst and anger that the officers of many higher-education institutions are failing their students and themselves by substituting safe bureaucratic responses for the courageous exercise of wisdom in the stewardship of higher learning. Officers at private colleges and universities are less exposed than are those at state institutions, which must be more attuned to legislative directives, but those in both settings are responsible for the defense of the central mission of the institution. Officers of institutions of higher learning who are unable to distinguish between education and training are unlikely to make cogent arguments to legislators, trustees, or to the general public. The literature about higher education of the 1980s is replete with the description of one pathology after another, some focusing on students, others on the professoriate, and still others on the their administration.
