Faculty Revolt at Yale?
"No one comes to Yale for its administration"
I’ve been wondering for a long while now when college faculties might revolt against the administrative bloat, in which at some major university systems administrators outnumber faculty, and sometimes come close to a 1-to-1 ratio with students. The administrators are usually better paid than professors, yet there has been a strange lack of class consciousness among the status-conscious faculty.
Maybe a revolt has finally started at, of all unlikely places, Yale, where it is claimed that administrators outnumber faculty five-to-one. Over 100 faculty have called for an independent audit of Yale’s administration, explicitly with the goal of cutting bureaucracy so that more faculty can be hired:
I especially like “Students do not come to Yale for its administration.” Yale’s cowardly and craven former president, Peter Salovey, would layer on millions for new administrative bureaucracies—which meant new specialized ministries for aggrieved and offended students—every time some was upset.
Strange that with all the media coverage of deans and faculties signing statements that decry the actions of the Trump Administration, this initiative has drawn almost no media attention.
The Yale Daily News reports on the petition here.
Its been obvious for a long time now that the reason Obama basically nationalized student loans was so that colleges could jack up tuition so they could afford to hire an vast army of ideological bureacrats. Its amazing what kind of money laundering and law breaking the democrats get away with. Some of their scams are more cleaver than others. Its also amazing how useless the Republicans and the Supreme Court are at stopping them.
Something to watch for:
Using its broad powers, the Federal Government is cutting funding for universities that coddle antisemites. Many departments, particularly in the hard sciences and engineering, are not part of that problem, but still bear the brunt of these cuts. I would expect them and their constituencies to lean as best they can on the administrators who caused this problem by indifference to, or support of, antisemitic activities on campus. As for the other departments: if they're woke, they support anything bad.
Other Federal cuts are part of the effort to abolish or diminish agencies that fund trash research. such as most ethnic studies. The people doing or managing such work don't deserve much sympathy from us.