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(Academics are fast becoming a minority in universities, with the number of administrators increasingby more than 100 percent in the last 30 years, vastly outpacing any commensurate rise in either the number of students or faculty.) And they are employed to do a job; managers gonna manage, after all. What else to do but change stuff? No university manager ever got a good performance review for stating to a supervisor, “Well, I carried out an evaluation of the structure of the degree, and it seems to be working really well; we don’t need to change anything at this stage.” Regardless of whether or not they’re correct, that person’s career is going precisely nowhere.

Chris Fleming in The Tyranny of Trendy Ideas - Academics pretend to be above cheap and trivial fads. We aren’t.