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The College Administration Pathology
A post by Todd Zywicki, about whom ACTA has written in the past, writes about similar cost concerns to those of David Rubenstein. "Inside Higher Ed" reports that Dartmouth College is redirecting funds from faculty fellowships and endowed programs to help pay administrative costs and close a $100 million budget shortfall, making a mockery of the ideas of donor intent and shared governance. Zywicki writes, "[M]ore and more we are seeing the bureaucracies siphoning off funds from academic enterprises, including faculties. At almost every school, bureaucratic spending has grown much faster over the past decade than spending on faculty salaries and the like." As Jay Greene has pointed out, the exploding cost of college has not equated to a proportional increase in the quality of education provided to students. That's why donors need to give intelligently--otherwise they support administrators rather than educators. [The Intelligent Donor's Guide to College Giving]
Posted by mbrindle on June 10, 2011 at June 10, 2011 04:03 PM
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