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The Relationship Between the University and the University
A lot of my faculty colleagues talk about how there seem to be many more layers of sub deans, deanlets, deanlings. And i think it's true even at the less rich institutions. The dens and delets about which your colleagues complain are very often people whose assignments are either regulatory or involved in various aspects of student life. They interact directly with students for whom college may be an unfamiliar, familiar experience. That's two thirds. As we know from sociological theory, any bureaucracy develops systems, which it then perpetuates to morrow.