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Exactly. I used to consider academia as a separate entity from the private sector, thinking it was full of altruistic individuals wanting to further the knowled
by vgeek 5y ago
Exactly. I used to consider academia as a separate entity from the private sector, thinking it was full of altruistic individuals wanting to further the knowledge of humanity. Then I started seeing that most colleges operate as tax-exempt businesses with different marketing strategies, products and target consumers. They're just layers of bureaucracy while those delivering the most value (professors) regularly get treated rather poorly (pay, job security, responsibilities, etc.) while the administrators soak up all of the benefits. How do the objectives get shifted back towards learning rather than building new stadiums and student centers?
- netizen-936824 5y agoIn my experience its split within the university itself, with most of the actual academics being lower paid and about furthering knowledge and teaching. The other administrative departments are the ones with questionable utility and motives, its like they're being taken over by MBAs
- ishjoh 5y agoIt's not just MBAs it's M*, I have a close friend who works in the administration for a well known university, her department administration will not hire any junior person that doesn't have a masters degree, it doesn't particularly matter what masters degree they have, just as long as they have one. In addition to requiring a masters degree, my friends admin department is way over staffed, having come from private industry my friend is shocked at how little people do. My friend has a boss whose screen they can see, and estimates that the boss puts in roughly 15mins of work per day and spends the rest of the time on Twitter & Facebook. My friend estimates that the headcount is roughly 3 times more than it would be in private industry