We’ve all been subjected to thousands of news articles about the state of higher education in the US in 2024 centered around the impact of protests at elite universities, but I can’t recall reading a single piece that captures the pyramid scheme that is contemporary academia. I wish higher ed beat reporters and editors were covering thes…
We’ve all been subjected to thousands of news articles about the state of higher education in the US in 2024 centered around the impact of protests at elite universities, but I can’t recall reading a single piece that captures the pyramid scheme that is contemporary academia. I wish higher ed beat reporters and editors were covering these issues as you unpack them here.
If/when you write more on this I’d be curious for your thoughts on administrative bloat and its relationship to faculty/grad student support bottoming out. I don’t think anyone woke up and decided to build new student gyms or have a massive student orientation program over paying adjuncts a living wage, but it’s where we seem to have wound up nonetheless. What’s the relationship between the surge in student life/admin bloat and the collapse of support for actual teaching? And are there solutions we’re not thinking of?
We’ve all been subjected to thousands of news articles about the state of higher education in the US in 2024 centered around the impact of protests at elite universities, but I can’t recall reading a single piece that captures the pyramid scheme that is contemporary academia. I wish higher ed beat reporters and editors were covering these issues as you unpack them here.
If/when you write more on this I’d be curious for your thoughts on administrative bloat and its relationship to faculty/grad student support bottoming out. I don’t think anyone woke up and decided to build new student gyms or have a massive student orientation program over paying adjuncts a living wage, but it’s where we seem to have wound up nonetheless. What’s the relationship between the surge in student life/admin bloat and the collapse of support for actual teaching? And are there solutions we’re not thinking of?