----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Andrews" <cultstud76 at gmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:55 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 21:36, Chuck Loucks <lbo at hvgreens.org> wrote:
>> I would suggest that the reason for increased costs at 2 X CPI_U is due
>> to increase staffing at Universities. UofM has dramaticly increased its
>> staffing levels in the last 30 years. So what are these staffers doing?
>> How about supporting research functions.
>
> I can't comment on the rest of your post, but I think you're barking
> up the wrong tree here. I don't know how you're counting it, but if
> you consider hiring six adjuncts instead of two tenure track profs an
> increase in staffing then you're looking at the wrong set of numbers.
> It is a lot cheaper to hire the six than the two--and a lot more
> flexible which the corporate CEOs in charge of these institutions love
> to tout. On the other hand, if we are just talking about non-faculty
> staff I would be surprised if there has been some 800% increase (or
> what ever # Doug cites in the article) in their number since the
> midcentury boom in research funding in higher education. If there is
> new funding supporting research staff, I'd be very surprised if it was
> directly tuition funded--more likely its outside grants etc. But in
> any case, what you're talking about seems way too anecdotal to pass
> the sniff test.
>
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