I say this in hopes Harvard will award me an honorary degree. It would look swell on the wall next to my real degree from Faber College. Not to brag, but that was presented to me by Dean Wormer himself.
Posted on 10/25/2023 6:53:11 AM PDT by ken in texas
Harvard University employs about 1,352 full-time administrators for every 1,000 undergraduate students enrolled at the university, an analysis conducted by The College Fix found.
This is more than a nine percent increase from the 2013-14 school year, when there were 1,240 administrators per 1,000 students, according to the analysis, which used data provided by Harvard to the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
During the 2021-22 school year, the most recent year for which data are available, Harvard had 10,120 full-time administrators and support staff on its payroll; in contrast, it had 3,899 full-time teaching and instructional staffers. The total number of undergrads that year was 7,483.
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Only fools go to Harvard.
how much federal money does “ Hah-vud” receive a year, and why?
In all fairness to Harvard, affirmative action schools require a lot more administrators to get their affirmative action “special ed students” through the course.
Too many chiefs and not enough Indians.................
Good point. Plus, it takes a lot of people to rewrite and monitor the grading software so everyone gets an A or A-. ;-)
The classic definition of “deadhead.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Long
Long was indicted in New Orleans on charges of embezzlement and extortion. The charges involved placing a “deadhead” (an unneeded state worker who performs few or no duties) on the payroll of a special state board.[6
It’s a graduation factory
Same in all public school systems. Give them a dollar and 10 cents goes to teachers, classrooms, and book, and 90 cents goes to a new administration building, administrators, and nonsense.
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
I was born 4.5 miles from Harvard. Mom dreamed of me going to Harvard some day. I was happier than hell when we moved to Arizona when I was 10. Whew!
I say this in hopes Harvard will award me an honorary degree. It would look swell on the wall next to my real degree from Faber College. Not to brag, but that was presented to me by Dean Wormer himself.
State schools/universities are the opposite. Take any engineering/STEM public university. Easy to get in and hell to get out.
End the federal student loan program, and all of this will change. This is all subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.
Just think! I would have been a Hamas-loving, commie lib right now.
Were you on probation?
I have stories..........
“Harvard provides a good example of why costs are so out of control, and Harvard is probably not the only one.”
I attended a state university in the 1970’s. The size of the student body has doubled since I graduated. At that time the university prided itself in its low administrative overhead and the tuition and fees were low and affordable for middle class families as well as students working their way through college. Today the administrative bureaucracy is ten times the size when I attended. Recognize that when I attended in the 1970’s the personal computer revolution had not occurred. Administrative and file systems were paper and are now automated. Tuition and fees are astronomical, even for in-state students.
Private universities, such as Harvard, are free to spend as they wish. Unfortunately, state legislatures have completely abdicated their oversight responsibilities for taxpayer funded universities. States struggling to balance budgets should look closely at forcing changes at public universities to make higher education more affordable to students and the taxpayers of the state.
Suggestions:
1). Leverage a common IT platform for administration across all of the publicly funded institutions in the state.
2). Slash the administrative bureaucracy. My alma mater has 70 DEI administrators today versus none when I attended. The payroll cost of DEI is $10 million. Instant savings.
3). Shift the faculty focus from research and publishing to teaching. Require tenured professors to teach at least 3 classes per semester (some teach zero). Junior professors should be teaching 4 or 5 classes. More hours in the classroom for existing faculty will permit reduction of class sizes or even reductions in faculty headcount.
4). Stop building luxury buildings with big atriums and high ceilings which are expensive to heat and cool. Return to utilitarian classroom buildings and dormitories. Student’s don’t need luxury apartments for housing and states should not be building them. If a student has the resources to live in a luxury apartment, let them live off campus and pay for it themselves.
5). Return to less expensive cafeteria style dining halls instead of an assortment of boutique restaurants and coffee shops.
6). End tenure.
7). Require college presidents to testify annually to a legislative oversight committee for higher education.
A Harvard administrator was walking down the hallway crying. A friend asked him “Whats wrong”? He replied “My student quit.”
All of this is rapidly going to end once the present elderly population dies.
Private schools rely on granny paying the tuition (a friend who works at an expensive private school said 85% of the tuition is paid by grandparents).
Then colleges rely on getting granny’s money.
Then nursing homes rely on getting granny’s money.
The hospitals rely on getting granny’s money.
Eventually granny will die and the money will have been pissed away.
Now what?
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