Posted on 04/30/2021 10:59:10 AM PDT by karpov
Most businesses and the general public had a brutal year in 2020—perhaps with the notable exceptions of Zoom and toilet paper manufacturers. Universities suffered as well, with enrollment drops and budget cuts forcing them to freeze hiring and salaries, furlough faculty and staff, and restrict spending.
Some colleges even went insolvent, with many others on the brink of a financial crisis.
But universities have two things most Americans don’t—lobbyists and friendly politicians eager to do their bidding. They spent the last year begging for bailouts and enjoyed a considerable degree of success. Universities received nearly $60 billion in higher education relief funds and are set to receive an additional $40 billion in bailouts. Unfortunately, these relief packages didn’t have restrictions to curb wasteful spending, such as administrative bloat and other non-instructional expenditures.
As a result, some colleges across America continued to spend recklessly on administrative expansion, often at the expense of faculty. A number of institutions cut tenured positions. But two schools, Ohio State University and Syracuse University, hope to buck these trends. Both plan to hire at least 400 tenure-track faculty over the course of several years.
If this were the whole story, we might start singing their praises for hiring long-term professors instead of short-term adjuncts. But longtime observers of the American higher education system should probably know by now that cynicism is a safer bet as it is here.
A closer look reveals that the hiring bump is about promoting political agendas rather than improving education. Identity politics and private- and public-sector influence are hidden inside these academic Trojan horses.
As higher ed recovers from COVID-19 cuts, leaders have a renewed commitment to “social justice” that will be reflected in their hiring decisions.
(Excerpt) Read more at jamesgmartin.center ...
The fact that universities are so corrupt is a strong argument in favor of abolishing, if not restructuring the university systems we have in our country.
Yes...unpopular opinion I know.
Ohio State employs more than 100 diversity workers, costing $10 million-plus per year
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ohio-state-employs-more-than-100-diversity-workers-costing-10-million-plus-per-year/
The fact that universities are so corrupt is a strong argument in favor of abolishing, if not restructuring the university systems we have in our country.
If we abolish universities who will train the next generation of STEM workers? You may be okay with an untrained doctor operating on you, but that doesn't mean the rest of us are.
Diversity and Equity Deans making six figures (not to mention their staffs) are sucking the life blood from colleges and universities.
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If we abolish universities who will train the next generation of STEM workers? You may be okay with an untrained doctor operating on you, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us are.
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Most likely H1B scumbags will be the ones - with very little actual training and no verifiable degree, diploma or training
Most profs fall into the non-instructional expenditures.
Bails outs from all that free government money.
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