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The article is blaming the school administration, a parasitic entity that's very different from the academics you're talking about. It's also clear that the in
by rippercushions 4y ago
The article is blaming the school administration, a parasitic entity that's very different from the academics you're talking about.
It's also clear that the increasingly bloated administration is horrendously inefficient from a free market POV, but what's happened here is not a free market, but regulatory capture: the administration makes the rules and spends the budget to benefit itself, squeezing out both teaching staff and students in the process.
- ss108 4y agoMy understanding of the other poster's comment was that the triumph of school administrators over tenured professors was for some time a conservative goal and ostensibly a conservative win--but it looks like it has backfired.
- rippercushions 4y agoUniversities like Stanford are notoriously liberal hotbeds, by what mechanism would conservatives even make that happen?
- giraffe_lady 4y agoThe hoover institution? The associations with the dept of defense? Liberal opinions may be commonly held there but the university itself isn't.
- catawbasam 4y agoHmm. Maybe google "Hoover Institution".
- rippercushions 4y agoI did: it's a notionally independent unit of Stanford that has an endowment of $0.7B, while Stanford as a whole has $37.8B. Can this tail really wag the entire dog?
- ss108 4y agoIDK, ask that poster, I'm just summarizing the comment.
- puffoflogic 4y agoThe neat thing about being leftist in the USA today is you can blame 100% of the problems caused by overregulation on "muh free market!", a mythical boogieman supposedly in control of the US economy but in reality essentially nonexistent.
- muststopmyths 4y agoActually no, we blame them on DEregulation. Conservatives are the ones throwing hissy fits about overregulation
- om2 4y agoYou framed it as disagreement but you said is 100% consistent with the parent comment (read it more carefully).
- poszlem 4y agoReminds me of a surprisingly good article from gawker: https://www.gawker.com/culture/failure-to-cope-under-capitalism https://www.gawker.com/culture/failure-to-cope-under-capital...