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How about they get these schools for once to clarify just why they need to charge such huge tuition fees? I know former terrorists and fake indians need a lot of money to act as Professors, but still..


5 posted on 03/10/2015 11:34:20 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
How about they get these schools for once to clarify just why they need to charge such huge tuition fees?

A splendid idea. And you will find (I have the view from inside a land grant university, but the same applies at private colleges and universities) that the increases in fees mostly support the expansion of administrative superstructure, not lavish faculty compensation. My own institution in the twenty plus years I've been here has given faculty raises that on average scarcely kept pace with inflation, while administrators regularly get raises on the order of 8% per annum, has had the number of full-time faculty shrink by 0.4% while enrollments went up about 25% and the number of administrators and support staff answerable to administrators rather than to faculty rose by 50%.

Attempts to rein in costs imposed by state legislatures invariably cut expenditures on academic program and institutional support for research, not administrative bloat which continues to grow, since they are allocated by administrators all of whom are zealous to protect their own little feifdom, rather than by faculty who would try to protect the core functions of the university -- instruction and research. The only way to fix this is for state legislatures, boards of regents, boards of trustees and the like to specifically direct budget cuts directed at administrative costs and administrative costs only, or better still to reform the internal governance so that administrators serve at the pleasure of the faculty. Unfortunately those bodies are full of people from the professional managerial classes who see university administrators as "their people" and who are happy to see all cuts be shouldered by academic departments whose budgets are already very lean while more resources are provided for more and more management.

19 posted on 03/10/2015 1:43:10 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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