No really, isn't there bloat and excess at the "top" of the corporation? Besides, the corporation can justify this growth because it has a means of measuring "performance", namely profits. If corporations continue to return acceptable profits no one will question management's excesses but once profitability becomes a problem, so do excesses (sounds familiar?).
There is no comparable measure of performance for a university. It is run by the upper administration with little or no oversight over or measure of performance. The only real mandate, at least at a public university, is to avoid getting in debt and the university simply raises tuition to increase revenues (totally in line with neo-liberal thinking) In 10 years, my university went from one of the least expensive Universities in Michigan to one, if not, the most expensive U. in Michigan. CHAD -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of raghu Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 4:45 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst? On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Carl Dassbach <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't set about to collect data so much is anecdotal. In my university, > the administration has gown over 300% in the last 10 years while the faculty > has grown maybe 20%. The number of vice-prezs has increased from 3 to 7, > all extremely well paid and our president's salary is among the highest 10% > of salaries for university presidents in the country. What do all these administrators do? Isn't this bloat in staffing contradictory to the trend of corporatization of the universities? -raghu. -- A dyslexic man walks into a bra.. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
