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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 10 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Rejoining....in the good old days one go go from the West Coast to the Midwest (by Greyhound) two trips a year pay for registration, tuition, books, fees, lab fees, pens, pencils, paper,(remember them), clothing, personal items except maybe girls cosmetics....and shoes - dorm room and meals for $1200 a year. Grad fees at the end total bill $5,000.00 LESS if you were in state or better yet living at home. It also included two bus trips to Grandma's Farm in the next state for T-Day and Spring Break. Why? The school kicked all the students out of the dorms three times a year. 50 years ago.

    These days it's maybe enough for books or perhaps registration.

    The difference. Education versus training to be one of societies moochers.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 10 years, 9 months ago
    Funny on its own, but the issue is more complicated than that. You would be hard pressed to find a college with 3,000 students and a swimming pool (or a sauna). But they all have administrations. The flood of federal money caused an explosion in administrative staffing. That does not mean more clerks at registration. It means more deans and vice presidents.

    "The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, vastly outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty, according to an analysis of federal figures." -- Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02...

    The Chronicle of Higher Education online has a somewhat different view that actually underscores the grim reality: "While staff classified as clerical, secretarial, or technical workers saw the largest decline, at 24 percent, staff classified as "other professionals" grew 6 percent across all two- and four-year public institutions. While faculty-to-student ratios declined on the whole, the role of part-time faculty actually increased. " (By "decline" they mean in staff-to-student ratios not absolute numbers.)
    http://chronicle.com/article/Growth-i...
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