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> I just don't get it. Where does the money go? Nowadays mostly to pay for a huge class of administrators that mainly manage other administrators and monitor t

by 77pt77 8y ago

> I just don't get it. Where does the money go? Nowadays mostly to pay for a huge class of administrators that mainly manage other administrators and monitor the violation of rules whose creation they themselves promote.

johntiger1 8y ago
A self-sustaining bureaucracy!
- apathy 8y ago
  Just like in medicine
tejtm 8y ago
Someone has to administer, grade and maintain of those mandatory "Integrity Booster!" courses and flash based "Digital Security and You! lessons (Sorry your browser is not supported.) Oh yea, who else is going to create that "PDF" that only opens on MS running Adobe?
- puranjay 8y ago
  I studied for a year in a US university before transferring back to a government run university back in India. My tuition for the latter was about $100/year. The amount of bloat I saw in US universities was unreal. Software that no one used apart from a couple of features, services that served no one in particular, classes that no one wants, and so on. Of course, the infrastructure was markedly better. But I can't say that for quality. Most of my classes were taught by TAs, while my classes in my university back home were often taught by associate or even full professors, several of whom had PhDs from top US/UK universities. And this was at a cheap public university. I can't imagine the kind of bloat a large private US school would have
seventhtiger 8y ago
This is repeated often, and it's mostly true. But people imagine clerks sitting in a circle and filing forms to each other. Administrators are filtering applications, organizing the events, marketing the brand, enabling recreation, looking for better food, etc. I'm actually ok with a barebones education, but that's obviously not what people want to see when they're going on campus tours. They judge the value of schools directly by the work of its admin, rather than the teaching staff who they only meet on the first day of class.

by 77pt77 8y ago

johntiger1 8y ago

A self-sustaining bureaucracy!

apathy 8y ago
Just like in medicine

tejtm 8y ago

Someone has to administer, grade and maintain of those mandatory "Integrity Booster!" courses and flash based "Digital Security and You! lessons (Sorry your browser is not supported.) Oh yea, who else is going to create that "PDF" that only opens on MS running Adobe?

puranjay 8y ago
I studied for a year in a US university before transferring back to a government run university back in India. My tuition for the latter was about $100/year. The amount of bloat I saw in US universities was unreal. Software that no one used apart from a couple of features, services that served no one in particular, classes that no one wants, and so on. Of course, the infrastructure was markedly better. But I can't say that for quality. Most of my classes were taught by TAs, while my classes in my university back home were often taught by associate or even full professors, several of whom had PhDs from top US/UK universities. And this was at a cheap public university. I can't imagine the kind of bloat a large private US school would have

seventhtiger 8y ago

This is repeated often, and it's mostly true. But people imagine clerks sitting in a circle and filing forms to each other. Administrators are filtering applications, organizing the events, marketing the brand, enabling recreation, looking for better food, etc. I'm actually ok with a barebones education, but that's obviously not what people want to see when they're going on campus tours. They judge the value of schools directly by the work of its admin, rather than the teaching staff who they only meet on the first day of class.