Rescuing universities from themselves: A five-point plan - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The entrenchment of dogma is a hazard of policies that hire and promote on the say-so of faculty backed by peer evaluations.
61% : Often hastily appointed by deans as expiation for some gaffe or outrage, these officers stealthily implement policies that were never approved in faculty deliberations or by university leaders willing to take responsibility for them.
53% : It might start with the First Amendment, which binds public universities and which has been refined over the decades with carefully justified exceptions.

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