Death of a Metaphor: Why You Should Never Talk to Faculty as if a University Is a Business

Often, in an effort to speak persuasively to certain outside stakeholders—legislators, potential donors, business leaders, the general public—leadership quite reasonably uses language tailored to those stakeholders. But what happens when we use the same framing to connect with faculty?

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