The economists noticing today that uni admins use arbitrary, political, & ever-shifting standards for alloting funding to depts & assessing program viability are killing me. In my exp, units are judged as often on credit hours as majors, or via a complex - often secret! - formula combining the two.
Naturally, what’s prompted this wider awareness is that MAGA attacks / defunding mean the Kafkaesque managerial regime commonly applied to the humanities is now hitting STEM. Hard to cultivate a proper attitude of solidarity when the scientists are Columbusing “being goddamn aware of basic stuff.”