tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post102890182613929587..comments2023-11-02T09:44:15.693-04:00Comments on The Center for College Affordability and Productivity: Secret Ballots in Higher EducationCenter for College Affordability and Productivityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041956958538598371noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post-4602909190690796432007-06-27T13:39:00.000-04:002007-06-27T13:39:00.000-04:00Here are some memorable thoughts from former Miami...Here are some memorable thoughts from former Miami U. President James C. Garland from an excellent opinion piece he wrote for the 12/30/05 WaPo: <BR/> <BR/>"The historical business model for public higher education is broken and cannot be fixed." <BR/><BR/>"<I>The days are long gone when generous government subsidies allowed public colleges to keep tuition low. Now that a public four-year degree costs more than $50,000, middle-income citizens must either saddle themselves with debt or scale back their college aspirations. Not a shred of evidence suggests this trend will do anything but worsen." ... <BR/>"The result is that public colleges are increasingly staring into the abyss. The marching bands, pastoral campuses and dedicated professors shown on TV commercials mask the reality of budget cutbacks, crowded classrooms, dilapidated buildings, angry faculty unions and armies of underpaid temporary instructors.</I>"Ken D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09616255609883707348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31670799.post-44713861208944701872007-06-27T11:21:00.000-04:002007-06-27T11:21:00.000-04:00Universities are already well down the road to cor...Universities are already well down the road to corporatization and it has not been union organizers who have driven them down that road. Consider this for example<BR/><BR/><EM><A HREF="http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/1988/01/01-27-88tdc/01-27-88dops-column-01.asp" REL="nofollow">It was towards the end of last November</A> when University President Bryce Jordan, in an attempt to respond to student demand for an open budget, made a rather unusual comparison between our beloved educational benefactor, Penn State, and the American automotive giant, General Motors Corporation.[...]<BR/><BR/>Jordan made the analogy between Penn State students and car buyers, pointing out that just because a person pays car payments to General Motors, that does not make them entitled to see General Motors' budget.</EM><BR/><BR/>Don't think that this was simply a poor analogy on the part of Jordan. Nearly twenty years, and two presidents down the road, Penn State abolished its student government in favor of-are you ready-an advocacy group. That's right an advocacy group as in consumer advocacy. <BR/><BR/>If university presidents want to treat their institutions as businesses, then don't complain when faculty take them seriously and unionize.veblenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09947720720209037530noreply@blogger.com