Resign, Please

 In reading the highlights of Inside Higher Ed, I was quick to come across a reporting by Kellie Woodhouse. According to Woodhouse:
"new president takes the helm of a university, it’s common for there to be turnover among the leadership ranks. But by asking top administrators at Texas A&M University's flagship campus to submit letters of resignation before a new president even begins his term, the A&M system's chancellor is taking transition turnover to a new level of formality and breadth. In a letter, Chancellor John Sharp requested that vice presidents and advisers to the president of Texas A&M's College Station flagship submit their letters of resignation to incoming President Michael Young, the former president of the University of Washington. Sharp says he wants to institute the practice systemwide, making it standard operating procedure that the upper ranks at each of the A&M universities and the system office offer to resign when a new president or chancellor comes in."

In reading this piece, I was quick to identity yet another practice of higher education hiring and demoting of individuals from their higher education positions. I am not sure what I think about this practice. I think it has negative and positive aspects. For instance, is having administrators resign from their leadership roles interpreted as a chance for others to hold these roles or is it yet another structural process of inequality and control. Also, Woodhouse quotes Sharp and mentions how these high level positions are not lifetime positions. I am wondering when it comes to working in institution of higher education is any position a lifetime position or even a position one keeps for a period of time. And if so, what is an effective period of time and who has the say so when that time is up. 

 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/22/top-administrators-texas-am-asked-submit-resignation-letters-new-president