A Change Is Gonna Come

[The other Neville Morley, Supreme President In Chief of Ex University on Earth 2, has a further bulletin.] Earlier this year we introduced a new training course in Corporate Conscience, compulsory for anyone we thought had the potential to cause us trouble. I am aware that some of the more idealistic and naive among you expressed disquiet then at the way that the implications of “loss of reputation” were characterised solely in terms of reduced student recruitment increasing job insecurity, while “loss of trust in the university” would mean simply that your noble and infallible managers might not be able to trust the figures that MS Copilot has given us. I take it that you now better understand. You, colleagues, are the conscience of the university, because we don’t have one. It has been suggested that we do not value our academic staff. On the contrary, we have a powerful and detailed sense of your value, and how much it will improve the balance sheet if the older and more costly…