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But this misses the fact that a huge, huge percent of the cost is going to luxuries and things that have no benefit to 99% of students. The dorms, gyms, cafete
by floor2 3y ago
But this misses the fact that a huge, huge percent of the cost is going to luxuries and things that have no benefit to 99% of students.
The dorms, gyms, cafeterias and student centers built in the last decade are luxurious spaces compared to prior decades. Perfectly good buildings are torn down and rebuilt so that a new donor can put their name on the building. Budgets for sports, clubs, and other programs have skyrocketed.
If you were to start a new school from scratch and ask the question "How can we give students the best education for a reasonable price?" you could do so with a university with 1/10th the headcount of staff and a correspondingly lower tuition.
You just wouldn't have a 15-person committee meeting weekly to decide if the company the university hired to perform an audit of the mission statements of the companies the university hired to provide consulting services to the student affairs staffers were properly recorded in the new document management system that was transferred from the homegrown IT solution to the new vendor.
- janalsncm 3y agoWell according to the article, at least half of the funding goes to paying people. Even if we eliminated everything else and tuition was cut in half, it would still be too expensive imo.
- effingwewt 3y agoHere's a simple solution- nix all the crazy administration bloat. I could never understand how colleges employ hundreds or thousands of non-teachers and still fail so hard at every a student actually needs. Actually becoming antagonistic to the students. Until I realized the administration is only there so service and increase the administration.
- lxgr 3y agoSounds almost like an inefficient system employing way more people than is economically sustainable – not unlike that other vital system that almost every other country in the world manages to make available to its citizens with much less overhead.
- Dylan16807 3y ago> Perfectly good buildings are torn down and rebuilt so that a new donor can put their name on the building. This is either extremely stupid or not a problem at all, depending on how much of that new building is paid for by the donor.