JW - I half agree with your comment.

Yes, the university does need to look at its leadership system.  The university receives the bulk of its funds from three sourses: research indirect, tuition revenues & state support.  

Consistent large cuts to the third of these sources (state support) are harmful but this harm has been magnified by the university's tendency to apply these cuts primarily to the mission (and revenue producing) side of its operations - teaching and research - while doing its best to insulate central administration from any pain.   The expensive and time-consuming "strategic pathways" process has added to this by further diverting resources away from teaching and research. 

Not surprisingly faculty turnover is up, research productivity is down and enrollments are falling - and any attempt by students or faculty to bring leaderships attention to this is dismissed as "resistance to change".

The sad part of this is that the university is much better than most think.