Doing Higher Ed Right Increasing education funding! Hiring full-time professors! Are these places for real?

Rebecca Schuman:

Seems sometimes like every week is a bad week for higher education. Last week was no different: First came news of the University of Akron threatening to shutter 55 degree programs--you know, frivolous ones, like elementary education--broken on the heels of comments by the school's vice provost, Rex Ramsier, that if his institution stopped using underpaid adjunct labor, it would have to raise tuition 40 percent.

Meanwhile, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting reveals that Ramsier, his six-figure salary, and the adjuncts he loves to impugn are business as usual. According to the report, since 1987, the number of administrators and other nonteaching employees at colleges nationwide more than doubled, "vastly outpacing" growth of not just faculty, but students. So, another week, another set of woes about which I can cry foul, and then get a bunch of condescending responses about supply and demand, as if I have never heard of such a thing.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 12, 2014 12:39 AM
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