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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The funny thing is that everybody in the 'professors are overpaid and lazy and they shouldn't have tenure crowd' is that they are finding out that the opposite isn't too great either.  Talking to a friend who told me that her daughter started a degree at the local state university (not flagship) and 'all her professors are adjuncts and no one knows her name and they all teach at like five different universities and don't have offices and don't have any time to meet with her.'  Friend then goes on to say that all the feedback her daughter got on her work appeared to be generated by AI, and how is her daughter ever supposed to get a letter of recommendation, etc.  Well, that's what happens when your university doesn't get funding from your state and becomes tuition dependent and tuition driven.  That's what happens when your state does away with tenure and doesn't pay professors a living wage and so they can't hire anyone.  It's really weird. [b] You don't want professors to be treated like professionals, granted any autonomy or to have any of those 'perks' like conference funding or an office -- but you also don't want your child taught by an impoverished individual who is overworked and tired and doesn't have an office.  Funny, you can't have it both ways.[/b] [/quote]

So what is the answer? Some admin bloat is ok?
Some corporatizations of universities and grad school is ok? To an extent?[/quote]

Yes, you can just take a bludgeon to funding and wipe it all away with zero thought. You need to apply judgment and nuance to what you want to do away with. There is some bloat but not everything is bloat. Think about what you most want to protect - teacher quality/mentoring/students, certain kinds of high profile research, etc - and incent and reward that and do not cut everything.[/quote]

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