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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having worked in a public college that was basically taken over by a businessman, I saw first hand what happens when you put business people in charge of education.

First, they cut budgets in a way that drastically impaired our ability to teach well.  We didn't have the materials or spaces that we needed.

Then they began to eat away at salaries.  First cutting numbers of teachers (while increasing administrative staff in their own offices) and staff who actually worked with students.

Then they cut some benefits for current teachers.

When the most qualified began to leave, they were short teachers, but instead of trying to hire full timers they hired multiple part timers and short term teachers for much less money and no benefits.  The necessary qualifications for temporary and part time teachers was lower.

Then they cut even those salaries and even the good part timers began to leave.

Then they simply lowered the qualifications necessary to work there until the teachers had gone from PhD's to almost anyone with a college degree.

The remaining program is pretty awful.  Yet tuition has gone up.

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You're describing the majority of public colleges over the last 20 years. Adjuncts outnumber tenured faculty nationally. Admin staffs have ballooned even at the schools that haven't slashed professorships. And tuition goes up everywhere. And most of those colleges are run by former academics or professional administrators. [/quote]

I'm aware; that's been a problem for even more than 20 years.  But ours went beyond even that.  We actually ended up with NO full-time teaching staff, and then a low-paid (like 25/hour) staff of completely unqualified "teachers" who didn't even have admin support.  In most colleges, even adjuncts have PhD's, or at the very least, master's degrees, and there is usually some oversight by faculty or at least some admin support.  [/quote]

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