we sarcastically refer to them as Tuition Bearing Beings (TBBs) whenever dealing with such administrative directives at our "student-centered" research university. bleh. gag. sputter. Total Quality Management, the University and You.
>In Chico, a good number of profs. just don't care, in part because the
>administrators create all sorts of perverse incentives. For those of you
>outside of these hallowed (or is it hollowed?) halls of higher (hire, as
Veblen
>said) education, I should pass on some of our memos from higher up.
>