WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE FRATERNITIES I DIDN’T SPEAK OUT, BECAUSE I WASN’T IN A FRATERNITY: Yale Professors Object To Vague, Overreaching Faculty Conduct Standards. “Is a professor sending out a late recommendation letter for a student as bad as one who commits academic misconduct or, say, sexually harasses a colleague? And shouldn’t staff and administrators be held to the same ethical standards as faculty members? Professors at Yale University are asking those questions, among others, and generally scratching their heads at what they say is a ‘curious’ and ‘confusing’ proposed faculty conduct code threatening undefined sanctions for a mishmash of transgressions.”

As with the sex rules, the goal here is maximum power, and minimum accountability, for administrators. Because that’s always the goal. My advice: Slash the number of administrators. Congressional Republicans should adjust federal funding formulas in ways that encourage universities, public and private, to run leaner operations.