Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Administrators

Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by mc32 on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:08PM (#33834277)

But the protester is not wrong.

Now there are all kinds of non-core administrators very ancillary to education whose job is to keep busy having people do things that are again, not core to education/academics.

Yes, they should cut the fat. Yes that will eliminate make-work jobs. That's the whole point.

Look at all these jobs and compare against admin jobs in the 1980s: https://www.higheredjobs.com/admin/

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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by neilv on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:20PM (#33834460)

I think these questions about growth of university administration are already familiar political talking points.

I'm more interested in the intent of a Harvard Government major (and nominal editor), in saying this, and in how they said it.

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Re:Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own: Harvard's 7,024 Adm... by mc32 on Friday December 02, 2022 @01:30PM (#33834621)

Maybe they are frustrated that everyone knows this is an issue but it continues to grow none the less so they are taking it upon themselves to speak truth to power. In other words they want someone to take notice and take steps to address the issue at this center of learning and better yet at all centers of learning.

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