TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to consider the career changing roles of university professors.Design/methodology/approach– Poetic exposition.Findings– Observes the common trend of research and teaching professors to become elevated to university management positions, thereby abandoning their teaching and research roles.Research limitations/implications– Implies the loss of scholarly potential and productivity to managerialism in the university sector and calls for the recovery of a cadre of professorial researchers.Originality/value– Critiques the increasingly administrative role of senior university academics in the world of increasingly corporatised universities. VL - 21 IS - 5 SN - 0951-3574 DO - 10.1108/09513570810880735 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09513570810880735 AU - Parker Lee PY - 2008 Y1 - 2008/01/01 TI - Old professors never die T2 - Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 753 EP - 754 Y2 - 2024/04/19 ER -