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Bureaucracy and Meritocracy

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Bureaucracy and Meritocracy

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ByLionel S. Lewis
BookScaling the Ivory Tower

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1998
Imprint Routledge
Pages 20
eBook ISBN 9781351307048

ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the expanding bureaucracy in institutions of higher learning wherein faculty resemble civil-service employees, an ambitious class of functionaries thrives to hold them on course, and careers have come to depend as much on service, longevity, and age as on merit. One consequence of this development is that the definition of how institutions of higher learning should serve society has been recast, so that the expectation is that the more academics dabble in nonacademic matters on and off campus, the more successful they are thought to be. The modification of universities from prototypes of businesses to official bureaucracies has begun deeply to affect their entire organizational arrangement. Universities undoubtedly need someone to lead and guide them. Yet, it is primarily academic leadership that is needed, not administrative leadership. The union of academics and power has been justified as a means of making campus life richer and the undergraduate experience more "relevant".

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