“But we could see adjustments being made," he said, adding that confidentiality for candidates is built into a process that is transparent. There are no secrets in the process whatsoever.” “ . . . shared governance is a very important concept in higher education,”

Perhaps someone with a greater ability than I possess can explain how anyone can make these statements without laughing. We are told that there are no secrets, but you cannot have any information about who applied for the job of president. How can a process be transparent if the candidates are secret and what they say is secret? We are supposed to believe that a president who participates in a search process where faculty cannot know his/her name will participate with faculty in shared governance? Perhaps the answer is in the second quote about shared governance, it is a concept, which is quite different from reality. We can conceptualize shared governance, but it will never be a reality.

Sitting pretty wrote:

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Nine months of " work" a year. We scholars have fooled the yokels.

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You got that bassackwards. It's 12 months of work but only 9 month of pay.