One of the risks I heard mentioned is that of becoming/ being perceived as an ”arm of the university bureaucracy”, as CTLs become more involved in decision-making on educational issues.
Interesting problem. Why is the CTL not seen as an "arm of shared governance" in these cases? Or at least a venue of it?
Dilemma: should/ can the CTL be neutral territory (and can it be?)
Fascinating to see what "neutral" means here. There's the "non-evaluative"/"non-supervisory" sense, where "neutrality" is essentially with respect to office politics, and the "not advancing an argument" sense, which in the strictest sense seems almost impossible to reconcile with any kind of developmental work.