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Even if your college or university has suffered from excessive administrative in-fighting, I doubt that it has come anywhere close to match the following situation, reported in the Bangkok Post in Thailand: “Assumption University is once again engulfed in chaos due to factional infighting over who has the right to be the university’s rector. […] … learn more→
Tag Archives: administration
So, you think that your University has administrative problems . . .
The true tragedy of a plundered school
So I’m looking at Cooper Union, a school that was recently plundered wholesale by administration. This really isn’t that special an occurrence; across the country, school after school is being looted like this. The only difference here is Cooper Union gave free tuition for its students, and so only had a finite amount of money […] … learn more→
Professor suspended 9 months for “sighing.”
\”It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself–anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to […] … learn more→
Awesome administrative arrogance
When I tell people what’s going on in higher education, the tales are often so bizarre that I completely understand why I’m greeted with disbelief. Many times I’ve mentioned the epic arrogance of administration, how it is simply impossible to tell them anything besides what they want to hear. If you’re not being sycophantic, you’re […] … learn more→
Report: Admin plundered school (Shock!)
Last year, I looked at a school that was “forced” to go from free tuition, to charging $19,000 a year. It was obvious on the face of it that the school had been plundered by the administrative caste…you just can’t go from “free” (and tax free status) to having to charge that kind of money […] … learn more→
Dispelling another lie about rising tuition
Admin: “Due to cutbacks in funding, we need to freeze pay for faculty again this year…” –I probably hear this every other year. The excuse doesn’t stop admin from getting raises, of course. Tuition rises and rises, and admin is forever spewing lies about why tuition is ever skyrocketing up. One of the most common […] … learn more→
So you want to be an administrator…
The administrative superstructure that characterizes American higher education is coming under increased scrutiny. Yet administrators keep multiplying anyway, as do the “managerial pathologies” that Benjamin Ginsburg vividly described in his recent book The Fall of the Faculty. It seems like a good time, then, for someone to try to provide guidance to the growing number […] … learn more→
Higher Education’s growth = No benefit to students, educators
So I’m reading a report on higher education that’s tried to determine who benefited from all the growth we’ve experienced in the 21st century. My own eyeballs tell me the tale: much larger classes, many bogus classes, and a bloated, highly paid administrative caste that does nothing in regards to education. Last time the report […] … learn more→
Why students don’t attend office hours
More than 600 students answered 17 survey items about one of their courses in order to help researchers explore factors that influence students’ use of office hours. The research goal was to identify ways instructors could increase the use of office hours because so many students don’t take advantage of this opportunity to interact with […] … learn more→
How one building reveals what’s wrong with Higher Education
On the heels of its inaugural football season in the Big Ten Conference, the University of Maryland announced bold plans: The Board of Regents’ Finance Committee unanimously agreed to move forward with construction of a new building that would transform Cole Field House, an old basketball arena turned student activities center, into a “dynamic hub […] … learn more→
