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I would be shocked to find anyone other than an administrator who disagrees with the notion that there is far too much administrative bloat in almost every univ
by wfo 12y ago
I would be shocked to find anyone other than an administrator who disagrees with the notion that there is far too much administrative bloat in almost every university. But administrators are the ones with essentially all the power in the university governance structure and they certainly won't fire themselves.
- jerf 12y agoNo, they absolutely won't. Look for Universities not to fix themselves, but to be largely side-stepped by alternative education techniques, until such time as the Universities are simply unable to ignore the fact that they are no longer the only source of "higher education". It'll probably be a twenty-year process, but as long as the Universities prefer to withdraw on their several hundred years of respect until that account is absolutely drained rather than become cheaper or better for the masses, no other outcome is possible. And at the moment I see no reason to believe the Universities will budge until they've run those accounts absolutely dry. The administrators will happily ride this ride into the ground... what else is in it for them? (Look for ever more desperate appeals to the aforementioned multi-century "respect" account as they go down. Personally I'm more interested in the first derivative and it is clearly negative. Spend, spend, spend, it's all they seem to know how to do, for every account they can get their hands on.)
- Zigurd 12y agoTrue in a vacuum, but middle-tier US universities have a large and growing customer base in the kids of wealthy foreigners who can't get into their local elite institutions. They'll be able to defy gravity, in the form of MOOCs, longer than most people think. The side-stepping will take place, but in a parallel market.