Michael Perelman edu> wrote:
> One of the major responsibilities for cost inflation and universities is
> the influence of the business sector which supplies most of the trustees
> and far too many of the university presidents. They prefer to spend money
> on impressive buildings.  For those with ambitions of greatness, they waste
> money bidding against each other for "star" professors rather than seeing
> to the needs of the faculty as a whole.

Also, a lot of university presidents feel part of the business
executive class (calling themselves "CEOs" etc.) and get similar pay,
adding to costs. Luckily, our president has taken a vow of poverty.
-- 
Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine
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