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State appropriations reached a record inflation-adjusted high of $86.6 billion in 2009. They declined as a consequence of the Great Recession, but have since risen to $81 billion. And these totals do not include the enormous expansion of the federal Pell Grant program, which has grown, in today’s dollars, to $34.3 billion per year from $10.3 billion in 2000.
By contrast, a major factor driving increasing costs is the constant expansion of university administration. According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.
Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase.
It does seem a bit much to now have one administrator per faculty member when they used to get by with one administrator for every three faculty members.
I think it is a good idea to get government out of the production of what is essentially a private good.
I think you are on the right path. Business is in business to make money. First and foremost, make money.Actually this aspect has been blooming in correlation with the privatization of much of the campus activities and venues. So unfortunately, I think we have reasonable proof that privatization isn't the answer. Furthermore, even with the bs detailed above, private unis now are ridiculously expensive even the "on-line" ones. So again, I am pretty sure I'm on solid ground when I say that privatization is not the answer.
Liz Warren???Because liberal hypocrites like Liz Warren whine that tuition is too expensive and students have too much debt, but is paid $400K a year to teach just one class?
Because liberal hypocrites like Liz Warren whine that tuition is too expensive and students have too much debt, but is paid $400K a year to teach just one class?
Liz Warren???
Link???
What do want the link for? That Harvard pays her $400k to teach one class? Or that she whines the student debt and tuition is too high?
It's not hypocritical to make money in the private arena and yet see the hardships of others in the public arena. It's compassionate, it's considerate, ... hypocritical, not so much.
It's not hypocritical to make money in the private arena and yet see the hardships of others in the public arena. It's compassionate, it's considerate, ... hypocritical, not so much.
Liz Warren???
Oooohhhhh I get it. She could dump the Harvard pay and go teach at a public U for a fraction of the salary to help benefit the common folk and down-trodden. But she goes after as much money as she can. WELCOME TO CAPITALISM!!! How is what she is doing any different than what evil corporations she whines about. It is only greedy, selfish and socially harmful when the right does it.
Oooohhhhh I get it. She could dump the Harvard pay and go teach at a public U for a fraction of the salary to help benefit the common folk and down-trodden. But she goes after as much money as she can. WELCOME TO CAPITALISM!!! How is what she is doing any different than what evil corporations she whines about? It is only greedy, selfish and socially harmful when the right does it.
Uhm, she taught at a number of public universities before Harvard. It's not like that was her only job ever, as you're trying to make it seem. It also wasn't a recurring position, it was one year, one time.
And if you can't see the difference between someone accepting a standard pay for a standard teaching job at THAT PARTICULAR PRIVATE university, and what the corporations are doing, than you're not bright enough for me to debate on this topic.
I don't go to nutter sites. Sorry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/o...n-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0
Costs are out of control - an expected result.
How The Cost Of College Went From Affordable To Sky-High : NPR
So what do ya think eh?
This is what happens when you let Phd folks run institutions.
Actually this aspect has been blooming in correlation with the privatization of much of the campus activities and venues. So unfortunately, I think we have reasonable proof that privatization isn't the answer. Furthermore, even with the bs detailed above, private unis now are ridiculously expensive even the "on-line" ones. So again, I am pretty sure I'm on solid ground when I say that privatization is not the answer.
Liz is her tribal given name after she tried to pass herself off as a Native American minority.
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