I have been in the education field for twenty years now, and if I didn't love teaching and coaching so much I'd be selling lawn furniture at Lowes right now. Everything else in the education system can take a long run off the short pier. That is both at the post-secondary and in the k-12 sector. I don't think many schools, regardless of level, are actually in it for what is actually best for kids.
The higher you go, the more bureaucratic the entity it is. The more beholden to tradition and the more resistant they are to change. The UM is no different. When you are inside it, I think you become numb or unaware of some of the absurdities of the educational system. I think from the outside, every umbrage is noticed. If you think the admittance policies for grad Schools are absurd? Try HR polices in education on for size. I think there are few of us in here, could write novels on it.
My point? They are what they are. No one is going to get fired, and as much as things need to be changed, they likely won't. Business policies won't and don't work in bureaucratic organizations very well. I'll defend the education system, because for what it is and what it is expected to accomplish it does exceedingly well, but at the same point it is increasingly difficult to defend its willingness to spite itself by cutting off its own nose.
What is happening at the UM is a precise example. Bodnar is a reformer, but what he has found out that edicts from Main Hall, even if common sense, are going to be fought tooth and nail. Why? Because it didn't come from someone else. The Faculty Senate as well as rank and file should play as much blame for the mess the UM has. They need to change rapidly, and they are moving at the speed of glaciers.
Just my two cents.