tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post7591505660764244349..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: "Our Business Model." From the Tuba Playing Prof.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-13857356779099327122014-09-22T07:24:45.259-04:002014-09-22T07:24:45.259-04:00Update. Of course: Yesterday, an email message a...Update. Of course: Yesterday, an email message announced a new admin position--and its director is a faculty member, who promises.........TubaPlayingProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06524484569241433720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-57605784179338927502014-09-21T10:06:40.669-04:002014-09-21T10:06:40.669-04:00I can't help but think that this would be a se...I can't help but think that this would be a searing op-ed with the addition of but a few names. You got tenure?Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16403289509523215570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44487765143066330392014-09-21T10:05:24.997-04:002014-09-21T10:05:24.997-04:00I've never heard "the Seagull School of M...I've never heard "the Seagull School of Management." Am I correct in assuming that they just shit all over everything?Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16403289509523215570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-10117547055347807992014-09-20T04:23:50.018-04:002014-09-20T04:23:50.018-04:00If this were really a business, your overlords wou...If this were really a business, your overlords would be rapidly devaluing their own stock, since they are relying on increasingly stressed workers to produce an ever-shoddier product. It's just like how many genuine businesses are run today, and look at the wonders it does for the economy.Froderick Frankenstien from Fresnohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11653942918068535424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-40313435103237518302014-09-19T19:42:46.604-04:002014-09-19T19:42:46.604-04:00And beyond that .... nothing. They can't help...And beyond that .... nothing. They can't help it. They're scorpions. It's their nature.Rosencrantz Andor Guildensternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05095512139776536635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-3532160065393523112014-09-19T13:11:42.772-04:002014-09-19T13:11:42.772-04:00TPP, give or take a few local details (the encoura...TPP, give or take a few local details (the encouragement to existing tenured faculty to move into admin is a bit unusual, I think; ours are growing their own underlings via some sort of grad-degree-in-higher-ed-admin thingie, which I distrust mightily), you've laid out everything that's threatening to sink higher ed: the devaluing of teaching (and of any research that isn't associatedContingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-55522246896997735262014-09-18T20:24:53.121-04:002014-09-18T20:24:53.121-04:00Beautifully said. Man, that's my college as we...Beautifully said. Man, that's my college as well. It's not anything like I thought it was going to be. I might as well sell widgets.Hectornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-73370835031536123192014-09-18T17:11:23.720-04:002014-09-18T17:11:23.720-04:00That is very sad, yet all too common. In fact, adm...That is very sad, yet all too common. In fact, administrative bloat is one of the main reasons why tuition is so inflated. They have to pay all those administrators. What you described happens at my employers, as well. Faculty who become administrators remain in their academic departments, under the pretense they that will be able to teach 1 course when they aren't doing administrative tasks.Programming Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03838328277067778125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-83098311821616291112014-09-18T09:12:43.683-04:002014-09-18T09:12:43.683-04:00Gee, that sounds a lot like the place I used to te...Gee, that sounds a lot like the place I used to teach at.<br /><br />The department head who was in charge for most of my time there was an absentee landlord, obsessed with promoting himself to dean or, he hoped, further. He was a former colleague and got the job after a search rigged in such a way that he could only be the one to get it.<br /><br />Six months after he took the job, he promptly Quarter Wave Verticalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03173446011323023116noreply@blogger.com