Why are we hiring upper administration in a time of deep budget cuts?

August 11, 2017

Tori Tragis

Why are we hiring upper administration in a time of deep budget cuts that include letting cutting programs and letting faculty go?  It would be great if we faculty could know what exactly all these VPs do.  Maybe they could develop annual workloads and then be evaluated annually on whether or not they perform well on three distinct, although related, areas of performance! Maybe we could understand better why they are paid at higher rates than faculty even though they rely on faculty to do a whole variety of work tasks that then get kicked up to upper administration to crow about?  Hey, maybe there could be some sort of process by which those people hired into VPs (and upper administration) could explain their jobs to all the rest of us who function on a day to day basis to work with the UAF student population in the most fundamental of ways so that over time we could know how our upper administration serves as a resource for us.