you're being downvoted (edit: not by me!), but there is certainly merit to your comment. usually a board of directors or trustees is driving the direction that

you're being downvoted (edit: not by me!), but there is certainly merit to your comment. usually a board of directors or trustees is driving the direction that an organisation takes -- primarily with financial profit in mind (this is as true of a company as a research university, unfortunately). of course, they would not like us to think that's the case, and so will spin narratives that often misdirect our attention. that said, i think this can happen at the same time that the organisation is indeed taking on 'emergent properties' of its own -- human beings are complex, and build complex systems.