This is super important. The difference between universities where they have dedicated admin and managers and those that don't is huge. That way academics have more time to do their fucking job.
Pedro
Universities should cut into executive salaries to hire dedicated professional administrators and project managers to do admin and project management work, instead of getting underpaid academics to do B-grade admin and project management on top of their actual teaching and research work.
I think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession
Jake Anbinder
What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?