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Having worked in academia as part of one of the bloated administrative staffs, they probably do little to nothing. Maybe spend 6 weeks making Powerpoints that <
by vgeek 5y ago
Having worked in academia as part of one of the bloated administrative staffs, they probably do little to nothing. Maybe spend 6 weeks making Powerpoints that <15 people will see, then lots of pointless meetings. Everything takes 5x longer than estimated since you have to solicit and incorporate immaterial feedback from dozens of people for the sake of inclusion. Need a 5 page WP site spun up? 4 months. Implement some simple analytics tags? Best case of 2 weeks. Custom dashboards? 2 months is the benchmark. College tuition just keeps getting more and more outlandish to feed the beast-- yet when you look at associate/non-tenured professor (those creating actual value) pay at most colleges, it is laughable relative to the admin overhead and fat salaries for senior leadership.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoits a shame that multiple generations went into debt for this
- zzbzq 5y agoI'm the first to point out the absurd levels of gross bureaucracy in any large institution, but my first instinct is to question whether "Diversity Officer" is a distinct job title or just an additional committee that something like a professor can be a member of, since it sounds more like the latter, despite the quote implying the former.