From an Anonymous Professor

The academic culture is not the corporate business culture. Essential to the college or university, and upheld by the long-time policy of the American Association of University Professors, is shared governance between faculty and administration. The faculty are responsible for the curriculum and peer review, and the administration is responsible for the practical running of the university and its external relations. This is fundamentally different from the relationship between workers and their CEO, and those who enter the academic culture should understand that. Faculty governance proceeds by committees, and thus by consensus. It is messy, it is time-consuming---but it is democratic. That is the essence of faculty governance.
--An Anonymous Professor.