The question is too dramatic, too flattering. As Iago, most writing program administrators—not all— would be greviously overparted. No, they are writing program administrators, not because they have sold out, but because they have bought in. With clear consciences and the best of good intentions, they have bought into an educational system that mirrors the encompassing society of greed. If they had not bought in, they would not be petty administrators, but scapegoats, beside me singing in the wilderness. Their job is to blow research horns loudly and take soul-butter seriously—to maintain and defend the indefensible while tinkering with an iniquitous system just enough to obscure its iniquities but never enough to change it deeply.
