Sunday, March 22, 2015

Our Big Bucks Bosses

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156375

Americans committed to better living for bosses can take heart at the fact that college and university administrators—unlike their faculty (increasingly reduced to rootless adjuncts) and students (saddled with ever more debt)―are thriving…The soaring incomes of campus administrators are paralleled by their soaring numbers.  Between 1993 and 2009, their numbers reportedly increased by 60 percent, to 230,000―ten times the rate of growth of the faculty.   According to a February 2014 report by the American Institutes for Research, between 1987 and 2012 the number of administrators at private universities doubled, while their numbers in central university system offices rose by a factor of 34.

Read it! A commenter on the article writes:

Perhaps if this were distributed among parents paying tuition, there would be some pressure to address the distribution. And don't forget the coaches' salaries...

I'd like to believe that. In my experience however the general public, including parents, are convinced that faculty--especially those of us in worthless humanities disciplines--are a lazy, overpaid bums who would spend our working hours staring in the the middle distance dreaming if we weren't supervised, surveiled and disciplined by administrators, cracking the whip.

Americans committed to better living for bosses can take heart at the fact that college and university administrators—unlike their faculty (increasingly reduced to rootless adjuncts) and students (saddled with ever more debt)―are thriving. - See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156375#sthash.pQGNOkpq.dpuf
Americans committed to better living for bosses can take heart at the fact that college and university administrators—unlike their faculty (increasingly reduced to rootless adjuncts) and students (saddled with ever more debt)―are thriving. - See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156375#sthash.pQGNOkpq.dpuf
Americans committed to better living for bosses can take heart at the fact that college and university administrators—unlike their faculty (increasingly reduced to rootless adjuncts) and students (saddled with ever more debt)―are thriving. - See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156375#sthash.pQGNOkpq.dpuf
Americans committed to better living for bosses can take heart at the fact that college and university administrators—unlike their faculty (increasingly reduced to rootless adjuncts) and students (saddled with ever more debt)―are thriving. - See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156375#sthash.pQGNOkpq.dpuf
Americans committed to better living for bosses can take heart at the fact that college and university administrators—unlike their faculty (increasingly reduced to rootless adjuncts) and students (saddled with ever more debt)―are thriving. - See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156375#sthash.pQGNOkpq.dpuf