By Dan Walters / dwalters@sacbee.com

College administrators and instructors – particularly those in public institutions – usually profess “progressive” ideological outlooks.

Oddly, however, they tend to be very conservative, even reactionary, in resisting operational changes. They revere traditional classes in traditional classrooms, calendars organized by semesters and quarters of instruction, lengthy recesses between those periods, curricula controlled by faculty senates – and, of course, tenure.

via Dan Walters: California higher ed resistant to change – Dan Walters – The Sacramento Bee.