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I think we should push for the other direction: let's get the unnecessary administrators out of universities. In particular, let's make schools show that greate
by abeppu 3y ago
I think we should push for the other direction: let's get the unnecessary administrators out of universities. In particular, let's make schools show that greater than k% of their budget goes to actual instruction in order to be eligible to receive federal student loan dollars (and the threshold should rise over time).
It's still really silly to me that schools push towards having a lot of instruction (their core product!) done by adjuncts whose contracts may or may not be renewed for any term, but they have so many administrators and non-instruction staff who are full time with pretty great job security.
- throw_pm23 3y agoYour analysis leaves out the third big activity at universities: research. The core product of most schools (the top ones at least) is not instruction but papers and grant proposals. You are right on administrators though.