48,000 employees for a school with 11,000 students is absolutely insane. No sympathy. |
Did you read the prior post. That includes the hospital, which is a huge percentage? Have you ever seen Duke hospital? It is absolutely gigantic. Or do you just cherry pick stats to support your pre-conceived notion that Duke is evil. And I do agree with the general notion that Duke's admin is bloated. I just hate people who misconstrue facts and data. Especially ones who include "No sympathy." Thanks. No one cares about your sympathy. Sorry you got rejected. And/or are a Tar Heel. |
Most of those are health system employees who have nothing to do with the number of students. It’s insane to me that you don’t understand that. |
I'm a Duke alum, Ivy grad degree, spouse has two Ivy degrees. Friends from the Ivies actually always comment on how loyal and passionate Duke alums are compared to their schools. I think the basketball plays a big part in it - huge groups of alums get together for games and it is a great reason to keep in touch. Tons of my friends went to San Antonio for the final four this year, and Duke sells out a game at MSG in NY every year. Reunions get good turnouts. There were lots of big events this year for the 100th anniversary. There are definitely plenty of disenchanted alums, but that happens everywhere and the positive ones far outweigh them. So I'm not sure where this whole theme of low alumni loyalty and giving comes from. I think it is a few of the usual DCUM jerks who have nothing nice to say so just like to be negative and stir up angst. |
I mean come on. You have seen the guy, right? This is like saying Tom Cruise is 6 feet tall. |
I work in higher ed fundraising. Alumni giving rates are notoriously unreliable and highly manipulable; show me a source for the data you’ve cited, and I’ll show you three other sources that say something different. You’ll have to find another place to grind your political axe. |
The food court is amazing and the building itself is a marvel with so much glass and natural light and lots of great places to study and connect with friends. We have visited several top colleges and that Duke food court actually made me want to go back to college again. Much nicer atmosphere and food than the vast majority of colleges. |
What? This is a common complaint among legacy parents whose kids got rejected. It may be an advantage, but more highly accomplished legacy kids get turned down than accepted. |
I think this is a silly complaint. Most parents teach their kids the skills that they know how to teach their kids. My kid was on a team with an outstanding lacrosse player whose dad was an outstanding lacrosse player and taught the child how to play well and DC ended up getting recruited to extremely competitive college. Yes that child had a huge advantage with the in-family coach but what are you going to do? |
That's terrible! Entrenched higher ed employees and government workers should never have to worry about layoffs! That privilege is reserved strictly for the average American working class slob! Don't they know that? |
Well said |
Nice try. A quick Google search reveals that there are approximately 26,000 employees in the Duke health care system. That leaves 22,000 administrators and factulty for 11,000 students. Still an insane number. |
Excluding Duke Health Care, the number of employees is excessive. Have met President Price-great leader and not a dogmatic liberal imo and to his credit a big Blue Devil sports fan. However again imo the deans, faculty and alumni magazine are very left of center. Gave money for several decades but the liberal political agenda was too much. When mentioned this to a senior development official the person said we have received that complaint a lot recently. Another problem is many grads can’t get their kids accepted-nothing unique to Duke but parents stop donating. With a top 10 endowment and perhaps one of the wealthiest alumni network Duke will be fine but cost-cutting is necessary. Let’s Go Duke.
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The talk of liberal bias is a smoke screen to destroy science and medicine in the US, so be it. |
Not so |