Sandwichman wrote: > Try "incidental uncharged disservices"...
That works, tnx. > "Gaming the system" is a non-technical (but also non-specific) term for > what I'm talking about. Would you care to expand on that just a tad? I don't know a technical term for "Gaming the system". Attendant on my own remarks, me> The state university system, originating with a notion of serving me> the public welfare, has now become an industry, a highly me> bureaucratized system in its own right and a player in the arenas me> of other similarly bureaucratized systems -- state and federal me> politics, state finance, international academic publishing, me> organized fund-raising etc. is an interesting article. Not about work/jobs per se but about inculcated attitudes or baggage graduates of the current academic system will bring to the workplace. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/dbm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/dbm201118a.pdf >From the article: If students face increasingly poor quality in higher education, and duplicity in the discourse about the reasons for this poor quality, what will they expect of the large organisations that many of them will work for later in life? How will they behave as customers or employees of these organisations, whether in the commercial or public sectors? How should they cope with this when they are students? Will the coping behaviour they learn be transferred to their lives as employees or customers? [snip] In 2007, Osipian....argued that the negative impact of higher-education corruption on economic development and social cohesion was disturbing, and that with Notably (perhaps oddly), these authors are marketing guys. Both your authors are strongly in favour of the idea of students as customers, perhaps because we have taught marketing all our lives. By this, we do not mean that `the customer is always right'. Instead, we mean that `the student has the same *rights* and *responsibilities* as customers'. [Emphasis theirs] I'm not so sure I like their marketing-mentality frame of reference but they're pointing to a problem that related my earlier remarks included above. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
