There are hardly any educators or researchers on university boards either. One of my recent service responsibilities involved interacting with a library board composed almost entirely of investment bankers, pharmaceutical + biotech executives, and real estate developers.

SMshannonmattern.bsky.socialOct 5, 2024 7:28pm

“There aren’t any pilots on the Boeing board, and the only engineer in the C-suites is CEO Dennis Muilenburg—and pilots and engineers were the ones who found the crash unnerving.”

Crash Course

How Boeing's managerial revolution created the 737 MAX disaster

I saw a panel of authors from this book that was pretty convincing in tying the lack of educators on public university boards with the need to improve credit rating for servicing debt (I think) www.commonnotions.org/lend-and-rule

Lend and Rule — Common Notions Press

Public higher education’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors. How did it get this way?

:grim sigh:

We were informed this week of (yet) a(nother) 'strategic planning project' to be led by 'CampusWorks' (ed. che cazzo) an entity whose (apparently unironic) tagline is 'Let's Get Back to Happy' : www.campusworksinc.com Oddly (ed. not) there seem to 'hardly any educators or researchers' here either 🙄