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Hard to feel bad for any higher-ed institutions nowadays. It's clear that degrees are essentially signaling that's captured by outrageously bloated, rent-seekin
by gnusty_gnurc 7y ago
Hard to feel bad for any higher-ed institutions nowadays. It's clear that degrees are essentially signaling that's captured by outrageously bloated, rent-seeking institutions. I'm completely sympathetic to the idealism that colleges are vital institutions of education, but there's something systemically wrong with college price, criminally so, and the issue isn't just "we're not spending enough."
- scifi6546 7y agoUA is nothing like a corporation it is tied to the state. Yes it has quite a bit of waste but fundamentally the institutions goal is to do research and to educate
- DuskStar 7y agoFundamentally the goal of UA is to survive and grow, like all other organizations. If research and education furthers that goal, then that's what it'll attempt to do - but if bloat and cost disease further that goal expect to see those too.
- scifi6546 7y agosurprisingly a lot of the people there actually care about science and some people care about teaching
- DuskStar 7y agoOh, of course - but individual goals are not organisational imperatives.
- scifi6546 7y agoNot always. UA is composed of many sub groups. They usually have little to do with each other. Some of these groups are very wastefull and just try to further their existance. But a large portion of the groups are actually concerned with doing things in the real world. I do not want to give specific examples but I have plenty of experience with people that actually want to do good things in the world at UA.
- maxerickson 7y agoI understand you mean that it isn't a for-profit business, but the Alaska constitution literally establishes the state university as a corporation.