Carl Dassbach wrote: > I haven't set about to collect data so much is anecdotal. In my university, > the administration has gown over 300% in the last 10 years while the faculty > has grown maybe 20%. The number of vice-prezs has increased from 3 to 7 all extremely well paid and our president's salary is among the highest 10% of salaries for university presidents in the country. <
That's happening at my university, too. A lot of it has to do with the overhead needed for insurance, legal stuff, personnel management, fund-raising, etc. Also, corporate culture has infiltrated. Our Academic Vice Prez is now called the Chief Academic Officer (pronounced "cow"). > Most of our building are 60/70s institutional red brick but the 2 newest > building are roofed or sheathed in copper with granite, marble or slate > facades. The new buildings have wood and tile, the old ones have linoleum > floors (but the University is gradually upgrading them.) < Part of this happens because they can't get donors to shell out if they can't be paying for a newer, better, fancier, etc. building. The Larry Flynt Library can't look like an institutional red brick tenement if you want Larry's money. > We routinely spend large amounts of money for a new logo and to have someone > invent a new motto, our latest - "Create the future." < My favorite college motto is the one of the college in "Animal House": Learning is Good. Our logo is stupid: LMU (vertical bar) LA. They spent money on that, when they could have a contest with student entrants. > We hire image consultants. The largest part of the administration is > "Marketing" and things like the registrar and data processing services are > part of marketing. Our marketing budget is huge and we send recruiter all > over the country as well as all over the world to recruit students. We have > a Division 1 hockey team that has not had a winning season in many years but > they still travel all over the country. < I hate that stuff too. > We have started programs like biomedical engineering out of nothing and spent > a great deal of money to seed the program and recruit faculty but have very > few majors. < I think that may be a good thing. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
