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Timeline for management in academia

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Dec 4, 2018 at 2:50 comment added Wolfgang Bangerth I understand the issue. But I think that your solution -- to make sure that only research active faculty do administrative jobs -- is correct.
Dec 3, 2018 at 6:39 comment added Johnny Cage I see your point, and I understand. The problem is not that they (despite not doing research) they are good administrators...the problem is that they are also bad administrators in general! In my country (Mediterrean European country) there is a generation of professors (50-60) who entered at the university with a permanent position because of the need of teaching personal, not because they had merits enough to get the position. In general they take the administrative job as a civil servant, doing the minimum to make all work and reducing the academic level...
Dec 3, 2018 at 5:11 history answered Wolfgang Bangerth CC BY-SA 4.0