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.
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.................
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 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.
End the federal student loan program, and all of this will change. This is all subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.
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.”
The gravy train.... What a wonderful ride....if you can get it.!
And we used to joke about what jobs there would be for Black Studies majors. Women’s studies, gay studies and so on.
Undergrads at Harvard are just there for appearances.
Brainwashing is a tough business. You don't think Harvard and the rest of the universities in the U.S. have it easy, do you? Creating and graduating generation after generation of Marxist robots has taken almost 100 years of planning and execution.
BTW, the Communist Party USA was founded in NYC (235 W 23rd St) on September 1, 1919 (104 years ago). I used to live right around the corner on 22nd St.
Bloated Administrative Staffs is the Hallmark of today’s education system from pre-school to university graduate level.
here is the example I use.
In Florida we are paying about $20,000 per year per student for pre-school to 12th grade.
In Florida the maximum class size is 20 kids per classroom.
So we are spending $400,000 per year per classroom.
A teacher costs about $100,000 per year for salary and benefits.
So what is the other $300,000 per year per classroom spent on????
Administrative Bureauracy.
So what?
This is just too insane to be true. How many graduate students are there that the bureaucracy “administrates” over?
Sounds like the NHS...