Re: [Pen-l] Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst?

[Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher@xxxxxxxxx>]

exactly. there is this weird thing i've found in higher ed where so many who have never really worked in the (private) corporate world fetishize it as somehow paradigmatically efficient, no-nonsense, etc. which, of course, it's not.

not that this is what raghu is doing, but the question and responses bring this to mind. particularly because administrators, especially "reformers," come at their jobs from the converse point-of-view: what education really needs is a good dose of that mythical corporate efficiency. and "accountability." thus all the assessment and "learning outcomes"-centric crap we have to deal with now.

because more rules and more paper always result in better outcomes (including more efficiency). like the IRS.

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

raghu wrote:
> What do all these administrators do? Isn't this bloat in staffing
> contradictory to the trend of corporatization of the universities?

presumably, their main job is to hire other administrators and staff.
Aren't for-profit corporations bureaucratically bloated too?

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way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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