The issues raised in this piece apply equally well, and perhaps even more urgently, to UK universities. Having been an elected Faculty Council member & Chair in the years before coming to the UK my impression is that managerial overreach and democratic deficits are even starker in the UK.
Some info in English as we wait for them to also make an English version of the above: www.voxweb.nl/en/dean-of-t...
Paula Fikkert, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, is stepping down. In an email to all faculty staff, she writes that she can no longer combine her work as a researcher and Dean. In addition, she disagrees ...
