Joining me now to sort of give you behind the veil of university administration is a former university

administrator who has worked at, how shall I put this,

two of the universities that you have seen

in the news over the past week.

He's going to remain anonymous for this interview,

but I think his perspective on how these

universities are run and really what accounts for this really disproportionate

crackdown on student speech and protests over the last couple of weeks will be edifying to you.

So first of all, thank you for talking to us.

Absolutely, it's a pleasure to be here. So first of all, I mean, like, what can you tell us about the roles that you did at the

universities in question?

Okay, so the two universities in question, I served as a communications director for those

universities highest offices as a communications director I mean'm like these universities are pretty big so there's I wouldn't you know I wouldn't be the only communications director there's several

My communications role was specifically executive communications.

So what that means is that I was responsible for both the internal and external

communications generated by the top executives at that

administration whether it be the president provost vice presidents so really people at the highest level of the administration, like the

pretty much the top of the pyramid. So those are my roles. Well you mentioned

sort of the the structure of these universities, these colleges as

sort of institutions.

And like lost in the discussion I think in the media coverage of this is just sort of an understanding of like how these

institutions are governed and like the actual internal structure that

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