This was posted a week ago but it was about an anonymous faculty letter criticizing the current Chancellor of Vanderbilt University arguing that there is too much centralization of administration where faculty have no say, cuts of funding opportunity for faculty, and there are programs such as Opportunity Vanderbilt that are undermining faculty ability to fund programs within their college even with the $4 billion endowment it says.
Opportunity Vanderbilt is basically a need blind admissions where instead they replaced loans with actual grant aid for students and that it is costing them too much money for sustainability.
The letter was signed anonymously and argues there are core faculty that are against the Chancellor and should take steps to review everything the Chancellor has implemented.
I wanted to point this out because we talk about sustainability for colleges in regards to low SES students. Although they can afford to do this with a 4 billion endowment, many institutions do not adopt this type of model at all. Is it really to create a space to recruit to the best qualified students regardless of need or is it something else? Have others experience this type of administration centralization effect at other universities or at UIUC?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/02/anonymous-faculty-letter-criticizes-vanderbilt-u-chancellor
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