A bemused correspondent from our former interim provost’s new university reports that Provost James C. Bean has redone their org chart – looks like he’s finally figured out the color menu – and is now working on a new academic plan. Of course he is. Same old buzzwords though. Takes me back, it does.
Universities are the best. Only at a university would you take someone with no training in management and give that person a high-level executive position with 18 direct reports.