Not as far as teaching is concerned. That should come from tuition and the state for public universities. At least it used to. In a typical large university only about 20% if the budget comes from teaching (tuition plus state support). That is very different from when we were students.
The problem in the universities is to a large degree because they have become research centers dependent on grants rather than educational institutions. So you can argue that this new model of the university is also unsustainable. The major task of any new faculty member in engineering or science is generate grant funding. Every faculty member is now a profit center. Publication or more importantly quality of publication has become less important (although in many cases large grants do go to the best researchers). My old dept at UNM is typical. The teaching load for most faculty is down to one course per semester. If you couple this with salaries, all of which are available on the UNM website, and state funding formula, it is easy to see that education in not the major task nor the source of funding. Ed __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) [email protected] 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Jan 21, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Edward Angel <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip> > Most striking is that none of the entities providing MOOCs have a sustainable > business model. They are being supported by foundations, such as the Gates > Foundation with the Khan Academy, or as experiments by some of the richer > universities, such as MIT and Stanford. > > Er.. isn't that exactly what profs have to do: win grants from NSF and others? > > -- Owen > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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