Micromanagement

This is ridiculous.

I grew up around higher ed (I'm a professor's kid), I worked as a professor, I worked as a college administrator, and this sort of thing is just another example of the bizarro universe that is higher education.

As a very wise and experienced faculty member once said to me in the midst of some difficult times in my higher ed career: "Always remember that the politics are so intense because the stakes are so low."