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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-28005038608252950452012-09-19T09:19:02.766-07:002012-09-19T09:19:02.766-07:00How dumb things happen at smart universities. The ...How dumb things happen at smart universities. The public’s UC Berkeley harvests family savings, Alumni donations, supporter’s money and taxes. Cal. ranked #1 public university total academic cost (resident) as a result of the Provost’s, Chancellor’s ‘charge resident’s higher tuition’. UCB tuition is rising faster than other universities. <br /><br />Cal ranked # 2 in faculty earning potential. Spending on salaries increased 29% in last six years. Believe it: Harvard College less costly.<br /><br />University of California negates promise of equality of opportunity: access, affordability. Self-absorbed Provost Breslauer Chancellor Birgeneau are outspoken on ‘charging residents much higher’ tuition. <br /><br />Birgeneau ($450,000) Breslauer ($306,000) like to blame the politicians, since they stopped giving them their entitled funding. The ‘charge instate students higher tuition’ skyrocketed fees by an average 14% per year from 2006 to 2011 academic years. If they had allowed fees to rise at the same rate of inflation over past 10 years fees would still be in reach of middle income students. Breslauer Birgeneau increase disparities in higher education, defeat the promise of equality of opportunity, and create a less-educated work force.<br /><br />Additional state tax funding must sunset. The sluggish economy, 10% unemployment devastates family savings. Simply asking for more taxes (Prop 30, 32, 38) to spend on self-absorbed Cal. leadership, inefficient higher education practices, over-the-top salaries, bonuses, is not the answer. <br /><br />UCB is to maximize access to the widest number of residence at a reasonable cost. Birgeneau Breslauer’s ‘charge Californians higher tuition’ denies middle income families the transformative value of Cal. <br /><br />The California dream: keep it alive and well. Fire hapless Provost George W Breslauer. Clueless Chancellor Birgeneau resigned. Cal. leadership must accept responsibility for failing Californians.<br /><br />Opinions? UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu Calif. State Senators, Assembly members.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00212339695693490907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-19211893451868630302011-09-27T13:55:43.615-07:002011-09-27T13:55:43.615-07:00Sure, I mean, the neoliberal university isn't ...Sure, I mean, the neoliberal university isn't autonomous from capital, that is, it can't be extracted from the broader economic context of late capitalism/flexible accumulation/precarity. So there's no easy answer or quick fix to the university's problems. There may be policies that make the situation marginally better or that minimally ameliorate the violence of austerity (and there are all kinds of people making proposals, like Bob Samuels). But none of them will "save" the university -- the university can't be saved. There's no going back to the Master Plan (and would we really want to go back to the way things were in the 60s even if we could...?).<br /><br />But hey, if we were forced to pick a couple of concrete policies, we could start with abolishing UCPD (and while we're at it how about declaring the university an autonomous zone, i.e. no police interference). Then we could take care of the administration on our own...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-41187361677570671372011-09-26T21:12:37.722-07:002011-09-26T21:12:37.722-07:00I agree that we're talking past one another, a...I agree that we're talking past one another, and I largely support the idea of broader economic critiques. What I don't understand, though, is how we deal with the problem that we have on our hands right now: there is a several hundred million (billion?) dollar budget shortfall. Right now, buildings need to be fixed, teachers need to be paid, grossly overpaid administrators need to be paid. Where does the money come from? This thread suggests axing the administration because their interests are entirely structurally opposed to that of education. I suggest that this is definitely bloat, people are overpaid, and we should assess what can be cut where. However, the administration serves both coordinating and economic functions without which the university could not run -- unless "those who use" the university are willing to take on these functions (and it would not be surprising if they built the bureaucracy right back up, facing similar problems that generated the bureaucracy in the first place). <br /><br />So, there are our ideals of reworking entire structures -- which I am actually more sympathetic to than I let onto in this thread -- but then there is the reality of the actual day to day functioning of the university, and being specific about how you plan to move from point A to point B, rather than just further elaborating how far apart they are and why.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-92206961689270194922011-09-26T09:06:40.651-07:002011-09-26T09:06:40.651-07:00Let me just say really quickly that I do appreciat...Let me just say really quickly that I do appreciate your comments and questions -- this is one of the most interesting, and definitely most detailed, conversations I've ever had on the blog. Mostly we're used to dealing with trolls, which may be responsible for the sort of default snark of the response. Regardless, I don't have enough time right now to write back, but I'll try to get to it soon. In the end, though, I think the bottom line is that we're sort of talking past each other because we're interested in different things: you're interested in the policy options that might be able to make the incredibly fucked up situation of public education (marginally) better, while we're interested in a broader critique of economic systems and the ways that the university more generally fits into and participates in them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-11197912562752101212011-09-26T07:47:42.037-07:002011-09-26T07:47:42.037-07:00(sorry for the 200 posts; couldn't get that al...(sorry for the 200 posts; couldn't get that all into 1!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-50090946405080302002011-09-26T07:47:16.964-07:002011-09-26T07:47:16.964-07:00---
I am assuming that the structural opposition ...---<br /><br />I am assuming that the structural opposition you're referring to is that, given the choice between spending money on education and administration, the administration spends it on more administration. Ginsberg says this is basically the bureaucrats concentrating the means of administration, accumulating legitimacy and power. <br /><br />I don't deny this is the case. But I question whether this is a structural opposition. The administration exists mostly to make sure the university doesn't fall apart at the seams and to do fundraising. Since we're talking about senior management here, let's talk about fundraising. I think it is an open question, one that should be carefully considered, at what point we take the money that we've already generated and invest it in hiring people who can generate more money and investing it education. When you have a billion dollar budget shortfall, that sounds to me like a time to invest in people who will help the university make more money. <br /><br />"All of the tasks that you describe as important administrative roles are things that, to be quite honest, we simply aren't interested in. We don't want private donors and philanthropists telling us how to teach and learn. We don't want luxurious new dormitories. We don't want high tuition even if it comes with some financial aid (which in most cases just means exploited labor ['work study'] and student loans ['student debt']). We don't want administrators hiring increasing numbers of exploited, adjunct faculty, while giving themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bonuses. In short, we don't want to be managed -- and that's precisely what managers are there to do." <br /><br />I completely agree that having private interests involved in public education is bad. But what are we to do? You say we would save a whole lot of money by doing away with senior management, returning management to ourselves. But this is just a drop in the budget. Ginsberg cites U of Chicago as having done this, but that was to cover a $100 million dollar shortfall -- nowhere near UC's deficit. And I guarantee you that administrators at U of C's med school are paid more than administrators here!<br /><br />You don't want high tuition. No one does! But how do we close the gap? <br /><br />We don't want administrators hiring cheap, exploited faculty, while giving lots of bonuses. But that's how the labor market works -- there is a glut of Ph.D's on the market, so the university doesn't have to pay them much. As far as the bonuses go -- I agree, we should tell the people who want bonuses to go fuck themselves and find someone else qualified for the job who will do it for less. But if that's the way you want to go, the same logic applies to the part-time instructors. The university will pay the least money it can to get whomever is good enough for the job. I would say here that Ginsberg has a good point -- administrators feeling the need to hire the most competitive people on the market for administrative positions, while skimping on teaching. <br /><br />We don't want luxurious new dormitories. I agree, that's stupid. But what are you referring to, exactly? What luxurious, new dormitories? <br /><br />We don't want to be managed. Ok, so how do you run the university then? How do you decide in which fields new hires should be made? How do you decide how to modify your facilities so that top faculty will teach here, because NSF will fund their projects that require hi-tech crap?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-31464454307415207732011-09-26T07:47:03.227-07:002011-09-26T07:47:03.227-07:00He then makes the following points:
1) Sometimes s...He then makes the following points:<br />1) Sometimes stupid tasks are created. (bottom page 2)<br />2) Administrators don't even have enough work to do. So they just have meetings and report back on meetings and have meetings to plan future meetings.<br />3) Sometimes they waste money by going off-campus for meetings and hiring stupid people to increase productivity.<br />4) Sometimes they waste money on travel going to far-off conferences in fancy places.<br />5) Strategic plans are a waste of time.<br />6) All they do well is fundraise. But then they spend the money mostly on more administration, not education. Case-in-point are the ridiculous sums made by college presidents, and their ridiculous perks. <br />7) All of this money getting thrown around can lead to corruption. These bureaucratic institutions are not very good at accountability and oversight. Part of this is the fault of Sarbanes-Oxley not applying to universities.<br />8) U of C Med School did the right thing and cut a $100 million deficit by cutting senior admin staff.<br />8) Top admins get raises for "more pay for more work" and "retention bonuses" and "performance bonuses" etc. This is a unfair since no one else gets this, and it's counter to the university's educational mission.<br /><br />His solution? <br /><br />Regents should compare their ratio of staff to students to the national mean and trim the fat accordingly.<br /><br />U.S. News should make bloat a ranking category.<br /><br />After the trimming is done, senior management should turn to faculty to for support, rather than bureaucrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-27271898731732728222011-09-26T07:46:39.241-07:002011-09-26T07:46:39.241-07:00He says that infrastructure support can't be r...He says that infrastructure support can't be right, because while the technical world expanded, entire new academic disciplines and subfields were created. The rate of growth in IT crap should have been on par with, not vastly outpaced growth in teaching what with all this new stuff to teach. Regulation compliance can't be the explanation because you don't really need that many people to do this, and you would expect this to happen at state schools and not so much at private. This isn't what you find. Finally, the faculty story just isn't that compelling because some faculty are willing to do these tasks and others not. <br /><br />So what's the answer?<br /><br />Bureaucrats are trying to legitimate and solidify their existence by taking functions away from some people (not really clear what he's referring to here -- I'm familiar with bureaucratic rationalization, but some details here would be nice) or by creating new functions. So we have bigger bureaucracies because of a power grab by those already in the administration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-92118706461172241782011-09-26T07:46:15.542-07:002011-09-26T07:46:15.542-07:00That said, let's just make sure we're on t...That said, let's just make sure we're on the same page here. This is my understanding of Ginsberg:<br /><br />As previously stated, I am familiar with the Ginsberg piece. I just reread it, and the only piece I'd forgotten was his forecasting that eliminating senior management would force more faculty to work administrative positions. I'm not sure how that would play out, but that's obviously beside the point.<br /><br />Perhaps we are interpreting Ginsberg differently. Here is my understanding:<br /><br />Colleges are spending more money than they used to. This much mean they have more money than they used to. They could choose to spend it on education or administration, and they've opted to spend it disproportionately on administration. This is bad because whereas administrators used to be faculty, now they are bureaucrats who don't really care about or understand how education works. Evidence of this is that they continue to hire full-time administrators while touting the benefits of part-time instructors. And those who are hired full-time get paid a shitload of money.<br /><br />There are three possible causes for administrative growth: infrastructure support (IT stuff, more student services, more elaborate fundraising); regulation compliance (more state/federal regulations means you need more people to make sure you're staying compliant); and faculty don't want to do administrative work anymore, so now they have to outsource this work to bureaucrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-37083153116775432822011-09-26T07:45:03.321-07:002011-09-26T07:45:03.321-07:00First of all, I find it pretty offensive that you ...First of all, I find it pretty offensive that you assume I've not read something that I've repeatedly stated I have read previously. That piece has made it around the blogs. <br /><br />I am deeply invested in the public education movement, but I'm finding that, not just on this blog, but on many other lefty blogs, there is a tremendous amount of contempt for people who hold more moderate views. It really makes you feel like you're going to get blasted for expressing your point of view and asking questions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-62726170066446429132011-09-25T10:20:56.554-07:002011-09-25T10:20:56.554-07:00Hello Anonymous #11,
In what ways, through specif...Hello Anonymous #11,<br /><br /><em>In what ways, through specific example or theory are their interests structurally opposed to that of students, teachers and workers.</em><br /><br />It sounds like you still haven't read the Ginsberg piece we suggested. It directly answers this question with numerous concrete examples, demonstrating that the administrative apparatus ends up doing primarily one thing: growing itself. Remember, the whole reason we're having this discussion here is the fact that "senior management" now officially outnumbers faculty in the UC system.<br /><br />All of the tasks that you describe as important administrative roles are things that, to be quite honest, we simply aren't interested in. We don't want private donors and philanthropists telling us how to teach and learn. We don't want luxurious new dormitories. We don't want high tuition even if it comes with some financial aid (which in most cases just means exploited labor ['work study'] and student loans ['student debt']). We don't want administrators hiring increasing numbers of exploited, adjunct faculty, while giving themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bonuses. In short, <em>we don't want to be managed</em> -- and that's precisely what managers are there to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243675294290376991.post-31812735036682135272011-09-24T11:11:00.243-07:002011-09-24T11:11:00.243-07:00(I am Anonymous from post #11)
"The administ...(I am Anonymous from post #11)<br /><br />"The administrators who form part of that senior management may or may not be directly responsible for making decisions about tuition increases, but regardless their interests are structurally opposed to those who actually use the university and make it run for the purposes for which it is intended -- students, teachers, and workers."<br /><br />How are their interests structurally opposed to those who use the university? Have they not in the last two years used increased student fees and a few private grants to retain faculty, rehire at least some laid off workers, and expand introductory writing and natural science science classes? <br /><br />In what ways, through specific example or theory are their interests structurally opposed to that of students, teachers and workers. How do you recommend we find a balance between spending money on the administrative support required to make the university function (some of whom serve functions that generate revenue for the university -- fundraisers, the politically connected, the "wealthily" connected, grant managers, accountants) and spending money on teachers, expanding course offerings, expanding educational space (new buildings, etc)?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com