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

["Carl Dassbach" <dassbach@xxxxxxx>]

No really, isn't there bloat and excess at the "top" of the corporation?
Besides, the corporation can justify this growth because it has a means of
measuring "performance", namely profits.  If corporations continue to return
acceptable profits no one will question management's excesses but once
profitability becomes a problem, so do excesses (sounds familiar?).

There is no comparable measure of performance for a university.  It is run
by the upper administration with little or no oversight over or measure of
performance.  The only real mandate, at least at a public university, is to
avoid getting in debt and the university simply raises tuition to increase
revenues (totally in line with neo-liberal thinking)  In 10 years, my
university went from one of the least expensive Universities in Michigan to
one, if not, the most expensive U. in Michigan.     

CHAD
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Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 4:45 PM
To: Progressive Economics
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst?

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Carl Dassbach <dassbach@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I haven't set about to collect data so much is anecdotal.  In my
university,
> the administration has gown over 300% in the last 10 years while the
faculty
> has grown maybe 20%.  The number of vice-prezs has increased from 3 to 7,
> all extremely well paid and our president's salary is among the highest
10%
> of salaries for university presidents in the country.


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


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