…is that last year when there was conservative community outcry against the LGBT Studies program, the university president published a very good response. The academic senate passed a resolution supporting this letter and commending the president for having written it.
The following year, under new leadership, the senate, apparently at the direction of some other administrators, wanted to rescind this support for fear that faculty support of the president on this matter might stir sentiments in the community. This is how ridiculously timid they are.
Other faculty leaders are cleverer and here is a letter on corporatization by one of these.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I have now cut from the text a few sentences on institutional memory (cutting the people with the most of it) … making the senate a small group of weak faculty working with a weak administration …
Also not said: they were going at the very definition of what faculty is (cf. Lombardi) — deconstructed.
Also cut from the end — a workup of this note:
A colleague said: I am less interested in what this administration can do to me and more concerned about what BR can do to us. He also said this Senate should be enacting resolutions about that. I said the problem is that this Senate, with the administration, is reforming itself not only so as not to enact resolutions but so as to block the possibility of doing so.