Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This Happen?

Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by pc86 on Friday April 05, 2024 @03:41PM (#39946299)

I agree with the general thrust of your argument but it's oversimplifying the causes. A real university would not be able to run with just professors and secretaries, that's ludicrous. You need some administration to handle compliance, organization, finance, etc. You can both acknowledge the objective reality that a university is a complex organization that needs administration and that most universities today have 3-4x more administrators than they need.

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Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by colechristensen on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:47PM (#39949308)

And why couldn’t the professor or two who teach finance be responsible for the university’s finances?

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Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by pc86 on Sunday April 07, 2024 @10:51AM (#39961161)

Surely you're not implying that every person with a PhD in something is an excellent practitioner of that thing. Most aren't. They shouldn't be - their job is primarily research on that thing, and teaching that thing.

Not every finance professor can manage a multi-billion dollar budget, not every Political Science professor can manage a campaign or run for office, not every Comp Sci professor can maintain a university network, etc. Not to mention the fact that not every college will even have a professor for every discipline that you could theoretically use to replace an administrator.

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