Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t...
by mindslight on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:29AM
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The fundamental problem is that music teachers tend to care about music, while administrators tend to care about protecting their own jobs. So any budget cuts tend to cut services, rather than reducing the overhead. This dynamic plays out everywhere with overgrown middle management.
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Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t...
by yostrovs on Saturday August 15, 2020 @07:43AM
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Music teachers care about their jobs just as much as administrators. It's just that administrators make the big decisions and they care about their jobs more than the jobs of others.
Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t...
by wwweston on Saturday August 15, 2020 @01:11PM
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This seems to imply that once managerialism metastasizes in an organization, it's chronic and likely fatal to any other mission.
Re:Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back t...
by dehrmann on Saturday August 15, 2020 @03:55PM
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As far as students are concerned, a bigger problem than administrator pay is professors who are more interested in teaching than research, and even when professors are interested in teaching, they might not be good teachers.