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> The end result is administrators who essentially make work for each other while providing much less societal value than is justified by their cost while activ
by biztos 5y ago
> The end result is administrators who essentially make work for each other while providing much less societal value than is justified by their cost while actively devaluing the “real” work done by those around them.
I wonder if this is inevitable -- the administrative staff's purpose is administration and it wants to do more of it -- or if there's a way to prevent that at the institutional level.
One thing would be giving irrevocable rights and powers to professors at public universities, a lot of countries do that but I'm not sure how well it works against "administrationization."
It does seem like putting the researchers in charge might help starve the cancerous administrative class, but maybe you have to start your own university in order to implement this?
- lmm 5y ago> I wonder if this is inevitable -- the administrative staff's purpose is administration and it wants to do more of it -- or if there's a way to prevent that at the institutional level. The iron law of bureaucracy seems to apply. Maybe the only option is to tear down institutions every so often and replace them with new ones. > One thing would be giving irrevocable rights and powers to professors at public universities, a lot of countries do that but I'm not sure how well it works against "administrationization." Maybe it works for a while, but you only have to look at the steady erosion of tenure in UK universities to see how this fails. In the US there seems to be a more subtle approach of pushing tenure dates later and later in the career path, so that gradually more and more of what were once professors are now adjuncts and grad students.