Your children's and grandchildren's college tuition is going up much faster than inflation. One reason--not the only one, but one big one--is the burgeoning class of administrators. The vice-presidents proliferate like those of banks, and if you add in compliance officers of one kind and another, the growth is phenomenal. Joe tells me of sitting through a mandatory sexual harassment tutorial, whose content could have been covered in ten minutes, but which took two "harassment officers" an hour to state the obvious. What particularly offended him was their clear contempt for the professoriate. WE run the university dudes, was their attitude, and you're just the pesky people we have to endure.
This is an Ivy League university, Columbia. God only knows what it's like in the state schools. FWIW, I sent this on to a couple of other members of the professoriate, who laughed like hell. On Jun 23, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > Well, for me at least, we had a near maximum amount of independence without a > lot of interference from administrators. I'm sure that varies widely, but I > enjoyed it. You can have the time or the money, and I've always taken the > time. > > -tj > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > It was always supposed MOOA would be a huge part of MOOC success, if indeed > it did succeed. Thanks for the pointer, very interesting indeed. > > For example, Udacity and Coursera (and MITx) all agree that administration > cost reduction is a huge step towards the solution of cost of education. > > I wish I *did* have a better understand the ins/outs of Education .. whenever > I hear Ed and others talk about the arcane aspects of University Life .. I > realize that I just don't Get It. And don't want to! > > -- Owen > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > For those of us who have hung around universities for a while..... (Tkx to > Joe Traub) > > http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2013/06/forget_moocslets_use_mooa.html > > --tj > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > > -- > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > Twitter: jtjohnson > http://www.jtjohnson.com [email protected] > ========================================== > ============================================================ > 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 "Bounded Rationality," by Pamela McCorduck, the second novel in the series, Santa Fe Stories, Sunstone Press, is now available both as ink-on-paper and as an e-book. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ― Jane Austen
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