I have, in minor roles, and I can tell you that your suggestions probably wouldn't fly at most schools. You have to understand that many (not all, but many) college professors have the following attitudes:

- They're extremely knowledgable about some specific field, therefore they feel they're smarter than everyone else around them about *all* fields, and don't need instruction, especially not from some stupid IT worker.
- They have tenure. Anyone who doesn't is beneath them. Anyone who doesn't have a PhD is considered about equal to a janitor in social status.
- Anyone who isn't a tenured professor has no right to interfere with what a professor wants to do.

These attitudes are often enforced by the hierarchy at the school. For example, where I worked, tenured professors had a right to be involved in the operation of the school, via the University Senate; staff did not.


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