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…that reorganizes administrative units (including philosophy) but involves no cuts to faculty positions. Australian readers: what is going on? Is this good, bad, indifferent?
Indifferent, Brian. My university has had a long history of regular restructuring: I have seen faculties, departments, schools, colleges, etc, come and go. They are largely irrelevant. A small group of administrators may (or may not) get excited. Me and my colleagues, teachers at the University of Sydney, are unimpressed but not upset. These changes largely do not concern us. We stay in the same offices, teach in the same classroom, deliver the same courses (or, as they are not awkwardly called, units of study), collaborate with the same colleagues, and respond to the same superiors, whatever their positions are called. I treat it philosophically (in a non-technical sense of the word): as long as I can do what I have been doing all my life, in research and teaching (and I emphatically can), I do not care about all these structures. But I am in Law; my colleagues in philosophy (as well as other colleagues in Law for that matter) may feel differently.
Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney, School of Law
The point of a faculty restructure is to cut administrative staff. So you might think- good right? Reduce administrative bloat. Anyway, in my experience, upper management usually do that stuff first. Then they come for teaching staff the following year.
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