Oops, forgot the link: http://www.freep.com/article/20140209/NEWS06/302090081/michigan-college-university-hiring-employees
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:36 AM, socialismorbarbarism < [email protected]> wrote: > > The Detroit Free Press did a study of Michigan universities and found, > surprise surprise, that there has been a disproportionate jump in > administrators, a drop in faculty, and an increased ratio of part-time to > full-time faculty. But I was struck by the very clear, open ideological > stance of leading higher ed business flack-"officials" as to why this is > happening. Here's the quote: > > "The increase in administrative and professional staff is largely due to > three areas -- career services, administrating grants and working to turn > university research into businesses, said Michael Boulus, the executive > director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan. > > 'Professors are not always the best person to take an idea into a > marketplace, or even get it ready for a private-sector company to grab and > use,' he wrote in an e-mail to the Free Press. 'Universities have been > adding staff to help bring those ideas to market and turn them into jobs. > > 'All of this is to say universities have changed to meet the needs of > their customers and the state. Adding administrators is the smart way to do > that.'" > > Look, I know critiques of the business-oriented nature of US higher > education go back to Veblen (at least), but this gross, open restructuring > of universities as service extensions of capital is historically > new--certainly in degree, and I suspect in kind. >
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