TO THE EDITOR:
A couple of weeks ago, an e-mail from the Chancellor’s Office informed the UNC community that the Arts Integration Working Group, a committee of administrators, had reached a sobering conclusion: this campus has a pressing need for more administrators, and committees composed thereof.
These senior-level administrators ordered the hiring of a senior-level administrator responsible for “implementing a shared vision, mission and strategic roadmap for the arts at Carolina.”
With this coming hot on the heels of the February creation of a “Chief Integrity Officer” administrative position, it is evident that the University is getting serious about the dire lack of administrators around here.
Thank goodness. Earlier this week, I nearly walked from Davis Library to Lenoir without tripping over one of these terribly serious people. Administrators fill a multitude of crucial roles here at Carolina. For example, administrators can sit on working groups overseeing the hiring of other administrators.
They can wear dark suits and long faces at events like last year’s “Town Hall on Race and Inclusion”, in order to demonstrate the University’s commitment to racial harmony.
When it rains and the Pit fills with water, administrators can be laid end-to-end to form a bridge so students can get to class with dry feet.
I think I speak for the student body at large when I congratulate the kind folks in South Building on their new hire. We know that money has been tight these past couple years, and we hope that the University considers canning a department or two to free up some cash for the administrative corps we so keenly need.
Sam Shaw