(Lack of) Project Management in Academia

I work as a "professor" in a local Community College. I put the "professor" in quotes because our institution doesn't assign titles - everybody on faculty in an instructor. I teach project management, I have found that colleges and universities love to teach project management but they rarely use project management. We have been going through a lot of changes lately and it seems that, as of now, the lawyers and the accountants are running things. Project Management could be a wonderful way to satisfy the yearning of both the bean counters and the educators. They (bean counters) argue that they can keep the college out of trouble and financially sound. What we have, though, is a situation where no changes are announced - they simply return paperwork and ask for more information - information that was not collected or developed because there was no clear plan to do so (or at least the plan was not shared with those who have to execute it). To quote from "Cool Hand Luke, "What we have here is failure to communicate...". Implementing enterprise project management would allow the college to really do some planning ans (egads) assessment in a way that encourages collaboration, communication, documentation, support, and accountability. But, alas, the eschew it. I'd be interested in seeing if anyone else out there has encountered similar issues, either in academia or in industry, and learn how you have coped with it.