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University of California to send some IT jobs to India
- thefastlane 10y agothis is a frightening but not unexpected next step in a transformation that north american universities have undertaken to disregard their charters and instead run themselves like cold-blooded businesses. will these HCL contractors have the opportunity to participate in senate meetings, university committees, etc, like actual staff members do? were faculty consulted about this decision? taking a large chunk of an administratrive department and converting it into something exogenous is a dangerous move and makes it clear what the university leaderhip's priorities are. outsourcing the cafeteria management is one thing. but how much of a university can you carve out and hand off to external for-profit entities -- where is the line? and, of course, the existing staff that are being shafted -- my heart goes out to them.
- flukus 10y agoAnd apart from all that, the quality of service will plummet.