Anyone else getting oh so tired of seeing the Thames Administration continue to expand the size of Administration (in a time when most academic departments are severely short-handed) and assigning major duties to unqualified new employees?  If Shelby were a real leader he would accomplish things like this job ad calls for by making the provost do his job (admittedly, that may not be possible given Grimes's lack of knowledge and experience) and relying on the the faculty who already know most of the issues concerned here.  Instead we get more highly paid administrators who do not know a d--n thing about the academic issues they are hired to handle.  Shelby will never ever allow shared governance because he does not trust his faculty at all and sees all non-teaching issues as under the purview of the Administration and him personally.  He's a micro-managing, gun-toting, ham-fisted, ethically-challenged, silly little stupid troll of a man.  May G-d relieve us of this torture.