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The public case for staffing government and university administrations with people from the business world—and for that matter for CEO compensation as the value the market places on their work—is that there is such a skill as management, which translates across domains
unrelatedly every university in America is failing spectacularly to provide timely information about and solutions to problems that have been predictable since April
academic twitter rn is like 50% "I'm supposed to use Slack but no one told me until the day before class and I don't have access" and "we were supposedly having hybrid classes but they announced this week that we're going all-remote instead"
no way anyone could have seen any of this coming! don't worry, the nation's best and brightest management all-stars are on the case (leaving their microphones on while taking a dump during a meeting about how to keep alumni donations strong during covid)
OK I take it back, this clearly was a deftly-managed crisis, just not the crisis we thought. University admins have brilliantly extracted tuition and rent from students on the basis of a plan designed such that blame can be shifted to the students when it inevitably fails
Truly, the cold capitalistic logic of management DOES translate to other institutions!
(The crisis they managed, if this isn't clear, wasn't "how do we provide a quality education during a global pandemic" but "how do we avoid revenue shortfalls during a global pandemic")
