FWIW that article doesn't say the former-faculty-as-admin thing is a problem in this case, unless I overlooked that bit, and the usual complaint I see about hig

FWIW that article doesn't say the former-faculty-as-admin thing is a problem in this case, unless I overlooked that bit, and the usual complaint I see about higher ed is more about top-level admin being the opposite of that—part of the professional-administrator class without real teaching experience who don't understand or care to understand the front-line staff, look down on them, and who are creating vast new bureaucracies full of more of the same sorts of people.