In A Great Man, Dumbledore, Rob Jenkins, an associate professor of English and director of the Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College, proposes
Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, might just be the greatest academic administrator of all time. … Of course, not everybody can be a Dumbledore, but two-year college administrators can certainly benefit from his example. At the very least, they can learn to resist their more Umbridge-like urges, and thus save a herd of angry Centaurs (which I take to be something like the members of a faculty senate) the trouble of carrying them off into the Forbidden Forest.
What a vibrant mental picture as we prepare for the fall term on any campus. According to Jenkins, what does Dumbledore bring to the administrator’s desk or his buzzing about through the halls of power?