American universities are appendages of the corporate state. Educators are increasingly poorly paid, denied benefits and job security while senior administrators pay themselves obscene salaries.
The problem started when the MBA's were allowed into the university's administrations, replacing the senior academics who actually ran the schools. They're the ones that turned the academy into a corporation and the top admins were happy to go along with the program because it meant big salaries and opportunities to hire friends and relatives.
It used to be that professors would rotate through positions like the Dean of their school or division. Now they hire a Dean, a Vice Dean, an Associate Dean, and a few Assistant Deans, and maybe a Deputy Dean for good measure.
The result has been this huge administrative bloat, like your examples above from Rutgers.
I believe almost all of the massive increases in tuition over the past couple of decades has come from the need to fund all of these expensive administrators. Why does Rutgers need two chancellors making almost a million each?
Keeping the workers desperate is also a good way to suppress dissent, which seems to be the number one goal of the elites at the moment. It's hard to be radical when your employment is so precarious.
Freddie DeBoer wrote: in late stage capitalism we’ve created a culture where it is widely understood that you cannot earn enough money to live.
What happened to the left? Why are they fooling around with all this equity stuff: why did they abdicate? (The rapacious, right never cared.)
Put it to a test. Ask anyone: do you want equity or do you want more money so you could live with dignity? I think the answer will be unanimous.
Equity is a luxury belief floated to distract us from the real problem: people don’t earn enough.
The University is lefty, educators and lefty administrators funded by right wing oligarchs, who, together can’t see fit to pay a living wage for teachers. Pay $80 - 100k and structure the institution around that: duh! Even better, the president of Rutgers is a labour historian, what a colossal asshole.
A fucking child can figure this out.
Francis Bacon:
“ Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not and a sense of humour to console him for what he is”
Really as I think back I realize many of my university professors were stupid.
They spend buckets and carts of money on sports. And they suck at them! Lol...might as well set the money on fire. Might keep some of their teachers warm at least.
I think the creative destruction of capitalism and the animal spirit at the core of capitalism are necessary because human beings will corrupt everything and the threat of extinction is needed. All central organization will impoverish.
In practice non-competitive organizations like government agencies become perverse and while that can and does happen in corporations, in time, companies are eliminated through competition. At least that’s the theory.
I’m a big Chomskite and he always argues that the government picks the winners, privatizes profits and the public purse absorbs the losses. It is a big distortion.
I think Chris is article is more about human duplicity than capitalism. Everyone concerned is conspiring to keep wages low. Administrators, funding bodies. They have wilfully and knowingly destroyed the economics of being a teacher.
An outstanding article -- thank you
The problem started when the MBA's were allowed into the university's administrations, replacing the senior academics who actually ran the schools. They're the ones that turned the academy into a corporation and the top admins were happy to go along with the program because it meant big salaries and opportunities to hire friends and relatives.
It used to be that professors would rotate through positions like the Dean of their school or division. Now they hire a Dean, a Vice Dean, an Associate Dean, and a few Assistant Deans, and maybe a Deputy Dean for good measure.
The result has been this huge administrative bloat, like your examples above from Rutgers.
I believe almost all of the massive increases in tuition over the past couple of decades has come from the need to fund all of these expensive administrators. Why does Rutgers need two chancellors making almost a million each?
Keeping the workers desperate is also a good way to suppress dissent, which seems to be the number one goal of the elites at the moment. It's hard to be radical when your employment is so precarious.
doG help us for we are truly screwed.
Freddie DeBoer wrote: in late stage capitalism we’ve created a culture where it is widely understood that you cannot earn enough money to live.
What happened to the left? Why are they fooling around with all this equity stuff: why did they abdicate? (The rapacious, right never cared.)
Put it to a test. Ask anyone: do you want equity or do you want more money so you could live with dignity? I think the answer will be unanimous.
Equity is a luxury belief floated to distract us from the real problem: people don’t earn enough.
The University is lefty, educators and lefty administrators funded by right wing oligarchs, who, together can’t see fit to pay a living wage for teachers. Pay $80 - 100k and structure the institution around that: duh! Even better, the president of Rutgers is a labour historian, what a colossal asshole.
A fucking child can figure this out.
Francis Bacon:
“ Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not and a sense of humour to console him for what he is”
Really as I think back I realize many of my university professors were stupid.
They spend buckets and carts of money on sports. And they suck at them! Lol...might as well set the money on fire. Might keep some of their teachers warm at least.
Capitalism sucks shit. Hum?
I think the creative destruction of capitalism and the animal spirit at the core of capitalism are necessary because human beings will corrupt everything and the threat of extinction is needed. All central organization will impoverish.
In practice non-competitive organizations like government agencies become perverse and while that can and does happen in corporations, in time, companies are eliminated through competition. At least that’s the theory.
I’m a big Chomskite and he always argues that the government picks the winners, privatizes profits and the public purse absorbs the losses. It is a big distortion.
I think Chris is article is more about human duplicity than capitalism. Everyone concerned is conspiring to keep wages low. Administrators, funding bodies. They have wilfully and knowingly destroyed the economics of being a teacher.