“Shared governance” = pipeline back and forth between progressive governance and progressive “education” = a liberal lock on and the promotion of both.
“Times, they are a changing....”
For public institutions, many of the professors and administrators have forgotten their mission and their order in the scheme of things. They work for the taxpayer, they are paid by the taxpayer.
When their service to the taxpayer becomes the seed that poisons the minds of the taxpayers’ children, the only recourse is to invoke control over them in a manner that will get their attention. Tenure and governance is that citizen’s 2X4 with the Legislature and the Governor handing it to them.