Everything the author is saying is true, but the reason for this direction is that the business / enrollment pressures on colleges and universities are mounting

Everything the author is saying is true, but the reason for this direction is that the business / enrollment pressures on colleges and universities are mounting and the shared governance model wasn’t getting it done. Decisions made by committee take too long and often no decisions are ever reached. This works fine, and is even preferred when there are limited financial pressures, but that isn’t the reality in higher education today. All of the titles the person mentions are academic titles. Almost always held by former faculty. In practice they often do very little because they don’t know how to do the job because, well, they have never done anything like it before. After a few years they usually are fired or resign in defeat and go back to being full time faculty. Other things the author says are on point. There are too many “institutes of this,” “centers of that.” Often these centers are demanded by students or a reaction to student complaints. Other times they are partially funded by wealthy donors who have some interest in the area. I think professional management of colleges and universities is needed, but I also think faculty freedom and compensation needs to be protected and increased. Colleges need to be less concerned about graduation rates and other metrics that create perverse incentives. They are good goals, but when you optimize for them you encourage grade inflation.