For example, Columbia University is now bringing in retired senior academics to coach women on its faculty in such areas.
Subsequent to monitoring by the university, senior academics at Oxford complained that the curriculum was narrow and offered students insufficient intellectual development.
I can do what I want, but I make less than most senior academics.
But a growing number of senior academics are trying to defend the idea of moving in the direction the UK has.
Often they still are, but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments, sometimes in rotation.
The future of British science is under serious threat because its funding body is making "disastrous errors", more than 70 senior academics have warned.
But these old school natural historians are real experts, some of them are far more expert in their field than the most senior academics.
The academic authority is the Senate, consisting of senior academics and elected staff and student representatives.
Of course some senior academics are prima donnas but most are very engaged with teaching.
The Academy is governed by a Board whose members are drawn mainly from institutional leaders and senior academics.