Politicians and leaders have continuously emphasized the need to cut spending nearly everywhere to help the economy recover — and higher education has been no exception.
Universities have had to grapple with reduced federal and state aid and rising tuition costs, but some experts said this isn’t solely because of the state of the economy — it’s also because of schools’ failures to cut their own expenses and curb inefficient and unnecessary spending.
While the traditional mission statement of universities is to further education and research, Richard Vedder, an economics professor at Ohio University, said that aim is slowly fading with colleges boosting spending on new administrative positions, such as diversity officers, sustainability coordinators and public relations personnel. These departments have become overstaffed and expensive to maintain, Vedder said, without enhancing students’ educations.
Education is labor intensive,the cost factor makes sense to me.
ReplyDelete8:41 yes education requires teachers, but it does not require sustainability coordinators and diversity directors, or public relations specialists, just more pc in country gone crazy with pc. how about schools that worry about teaching children the three r's
ReplyDelete8:41 reple to 8:48 -- Agree completely.
ReplyDelete8:41 again, education failure as I can't spell "reply."
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