Well, in my experience that's not entirely true. I grew up in a university town (born in another) and both of my parents work at a university, as do many of their brothers and sisters and of course friends. Dinner parties where there is more than one professor or administrator at an institution invariably suffers from talk of university politics. From what I've seen, everyone who works at a university has a very good idea of why their institution as a whole, does things and an even better idea of why their departments do things and everyone has a different idea of how it could/should be done. While it is often about money, it is also just as often things to do with petty human emotions like pride and preference, not to mention enmity.Which just further goes to show that no one has any idea why any higher education institute does anything. Except money.