Sunday's Watauga Democrat reported that 200 students and faculty protested higher tuition. Commenters keep stepping all over my message regarding these costs. No more sabotaging this message allowed.
25 WAYS TO REDUCE UNIVERSITY COSTS
“The recent explosion in tuition is at least partially attributable to the fact that administrative bureaucracies have ballooned out of control. This trend simply cannot continue as public sentiment over the upward spiraling costs worsens. Colleges need to refocus their mission on
providing a quality education at an affordable cost. This requires increases in worker efficiency and a return to a realistic pay structure. These goals can be achieved in a multitude of ways, including the consolidating comparable departments and positions, implementing an incentive-based compensation system, filling administrative roles with students, outsourcing non- education related services and making effective use of technology.”
The above is the conclusions of a research study regarding cutting costs in higher education.
5 comments:
There is much that can be cut from the costs in the university. Examples are deans. They are an enormous waste of money and energy. Their salaries cut into the salaries of teaching faculty. Deans have no real role that cannot be handled out of the Provost’s office.
A second position that could be drastically cut are chairpersons. The major role of a chairperson is to serve as a buffer between faculty and administrators so that teachers can teach. The chairperson’s main function is to assure there are supplies for their department. In the past, a chairperson was given a reduced load, usually one class less, in order to do the job.
There are other unnecessary administrative jobs needing to be looked at.
Besides salaries, all of these bureaucrats have large office staffs. Some even have assistants, and assistants to the assistants, each of which have staff. At ASU, they fill huge office buildings that keep growing.
If students don’t want to have higher costs, they should strike on the side of their teachers against the big-ticket bureaucracy.
I would also question the "need" for ASU to maintain an expensive apartment in NYC (and full time staffing there) and another one in Washington DC.
Sale of these properties, and elimination of the support staffs that are running them would save a few bucks!
Of course it is nice for a university admin type, making 140,000 a year, to be able to stay in Manhattan for $25.00 a night!
MANHATTAN LOFT
Many current administrative offices can be outsourced. Mid-sized businesses out source human resources, placement, business affairs, housing, health, psychological services, food services, and on and on. Just pick up the telephone book for ASU and make your choices. The university administration is target rich.
Blogger...don't know if you saw this:
From The Appalachian
I particularly liked this quote:
Jackie M.I. Clubine is a junior anthropology major and member of the group.
“When you increase tuition, students can’t afford their education and they take out loans and go into more debt,” Clubine said.
Of course, we all know that it's just fine for the taxpayers to go into debt...or the government.
Too bad some of these young people don't learn about the real world in class.
(PS - I am wondering how the "walkout" did?)
Blogger
"Many current administrative offices can be outsourced. Mid-sized businesses out source human resources, placement, business affairs, housing, health, psychological services, food services, and on and on."
This is an excellent example why conservative misinformation is so dangerous.
Those jobs get out sourced to India. That why we have theproblem we have.
Conservatives don't understand the problems much less have answers, solution or vision.
Greed is the only thing Republicans understand.
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