Wisdom
Hazard Adams The Academic Tribes Academia Politics	Principles of Academic Politics: 1. No one has the complete power to do any given thing (therefore the administrator's role is political rather than executive). 2. Real academic power deteriorates from the moment of an administrator's first act (persuasive power is ironically eroded by budgetary authority). 3. The fundamental allegiance of faculty members will be to the smallest unit to which they belong. 4. To every administrative action there is an equal and opposite reaction (faculties are composed largely of people who like problems, perhaps even more than solutions). 5. Eccentricity is not only to be tolerated in academic life, it is often a positive virtue. 6. Faculties demand the proper maintenance of the symbols of their institutions.
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