> I became aware of that difference in leadership structure when I met people at American universities to discuss education programs. While all of the important

> I became aware of that difference in leadership structure when I met people at American universities to discuss education programs. While all of the important decisions about our education programs were made by faculty, the Americans I met who were serving in similar roles were usually professional administrators. Leadership is still often pulled from tenured faculty but they staff their offices with cheaper professional staff. The dirty little secret is that some of this professional staffing is funded by "spousal appointment", which I can most charitably describe as a jobs program for universities settled in low economic intensity zones. When you hire a professor, you also hire her husband into IT or something, because if you don't dual earning households will look at more urban campuses.