While all that "non-productive" capital might include administrators, one should include the senior faculty (and perhaps their AMA-like unions) who drive the wedge between those "centers" of research excellence and their junior colleagues who do all the work with the clientele. Note that the Georgia business professor who recently killed his wife was making $212K and had an apartment in Amsterdam.
There are plenty of such data (quantitative and anecdotal (also called journalism)) cited in the Comical(sic) of Higher Ed as well as the usual suspects in each campus union. When I was in the U of California system in the 80s and 90s, the AFT unit representing systemwide lecturers and librarians did a survey on teaching load and administrators/faculty ratios where the numbers were nearly 2:1 ( I used to ask in faculty meetings where my personal administrator was so I could get him to do my bidding ). And unlike the guy in Georgia, they do get away with it. Ann ------------------------------------ On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Carl Dassbach <[email protected]> wrote: > My view: massive increase in "non-productive" overhead such administrators > with inflated salaries, flamboyant buildings, sports teams, > advertising/marketing, highly specialized programs that are expensive but > serve very few students and, most importantly, universities can "get away" > with it. Any examples or data on this? Thanks. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
