The gatekeepers at the higher education industry hawk tickets to the future. They promise new rungs on the professional ladder, access to bigger and finer business meeting rooms. Success is rare without their help. And theirs is a monopoly.
Strangely, education is not much of their agenda. Theirs is a practical, useful vision with not much room for the abstract. And, of course, such a vision requires management. According to Benjamin Ginsberg, a Hopkins professor of political science, “administrators and staffers actually outnumber full-time faculty members.” While the ranks of full-time professors have paralleled the rate of university enrollment generally since 1975—which is to say, about 50 percent—administrations have expanded at an amazing pace. Administrators proper are up 85 percent, Ginsberg reports, while the number of “other professionals” employed by universities has grown 240 percent.
How the U.S. ranks in education in the world is hard to quantify but some aspects certainly can be measured. In 2010, Auburn University won the National football Championship. Their net income from the football program that year was $37 Million. The National Football League Champion that year, The Green Bay Packers, made $43 Million.
Now that is success that can make us confident.
Strangely, education is not much of their agenda. Theirs is a practical, useful vision with not much room for the abstract. And, of course, such a vision requires management. According to Benjamin Ginsberg, a Hopkins professor of political science, “administrators and staffers actually outnumber full-time faculty members.” While the ranks of full-time professors have paralleled the rate of university enrollment generally since 1975—which is to say, about 50 percent—administrations have expanded at an amazing pace. Administrators proper are up 85 percent, Ginsberg reports, while the number of “other professionals” employed by universities has grown 240 percent.
How the U.S. ranks in education in the world is hard to quantify but some aspects certainly can be measured. In 2010, Auburn University won the National football Championship. Their net income from the football program that year was $37 Million. The National Football League Champion that year, The Green Bay Packers, made $43 Million.
Now that is success that can make us confident.
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