Uhm, Steve, it is a spoof for just those reasons you cite. That I made a serious response to it was only to say how it is with college administrations these days.
On Jun 23, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > If this had been circulated on April 1, I would have suspected it of being a > spoof, challenging the college administrators with the same kind of > job-performance/security threat that professors have been given by MOOCs. > > While I think this might be as inevitable as MOOCs, I think we will find we > enjoy the fruits of MOOCs and MOOAs in the same way we enjoy the fruits of > WalMart, Home Depot, Best Buy and other BigBoxia. We will badmouth them in > public but sneak into them in private to get the economies of scale, all the > while whining about the loss of a rich and diverse ecosystem provided by the > thing these behemoths replace. > > - Steve >> Your children's and grandchildren's college tuition is going up much faster >> than inflation. One reason--not the only one, but one big one--is the >> burgeoning class of administrators. The vice-presidents proliferate like >> those of banks, and if you add in compliance officers of one kind and >> another, the growth is phenomenal. Joe tells me of sitting through a >> mandatory sexual harassment tutorial, whose content could have been covered >> in ten minutes, but which took two "harassment officers" an hour to state >> the obvious. What particularly offended him was their clear contempt for the >> professoriate. WE run the university dudes, was their attitude, and you're >> just the pesky people we have to endure. >> >> This is an Ivy League university, Columbia. God only knows what it's like in >> the state schools. >> >> FWIW, I sent this on to a couple of other members of the professoriate, who >> laughed like hell. >> >> >> On Jun 23, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: >> >>> Well, for me at least, we had a near maximum amount of independence without >>> a lot of interference from administrators. I'm sure that varies widely, >>> but I enjoyed it. You can have the time or the money, and I've always >>> taken the time. >>> >>> -tj >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: >>> It was always supposed MOOA would be a huge part of MOOC success, if indeed >>> it did succeed. Thanks for the pointer, very interesting indeed. >>> >>> For example, Udacity and Coursera (and MITx) all agree that administration >>> cost reduction is a huge step towards the solution of cost of education. >>> >>> I wish I *did* have a better understand the ins/outs of Education .. >>> whenever I hear Ed and others talk about the arcane aspects of University >>> Life .. I realize that I just don't Get It. And >>> don't want to! >>> >>> -- Owen >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: >>> For those of us who have hung around universities for a while..... 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