The fact that these places of learning are now categorised as "Title IV
institutions" - whatever that might mean (with the implications that there
are Title I, II, etc) - is already a telling sign of bureaucratisation.

Regards,

Rui

On 13/03/2008, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The increasing bureaucratization of education has now reached the tipping
> point where
> faculty represent less than half the full-time professional staff at Title
> IV
> institutions. I have not seen any data to be able to project when more
> than half of
> faculty time will be devoted to unproductive administrative duties, but
> what I
> noticed here is that that point will not be too far off in the future.
>
> U.S. Department of Education. 2008. Employees in Postsecondary
> Institutions, Fall
> 2006, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Faculty, 2006-07, NCES
> 2008-172
> (Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education
> Statistics).
>
> http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008172.pdf
>
> Only 48.6 percent of full-time professional staff at Title IV institutions
> are
> faculty, indicating a surge in administrators. In public institutions,
> 51.1 percent,
> while the figure for private institutions is 44%.
>
> --
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
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