The campus isn’t ‘misunderstood.’ It’s mismanaged — on purpose.

The campus isn’t ‘misunderstood.’ It’s mismanaged — on purpose.

Former Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger has produced a slender, puzzling book. It glides past the central problems facing campuses — weak leadership, weak accountability, and ideological capture — and lingers instead on nostalgia and the “community of scholars.”It also prompts a blunt question: Why do university presidents publicly dissemble? Not in the chest-thumping manner of a cable-news partisan, but in the lubricated, bureaucr…