Sunday, July 17, 2011

"Administrative Bloat": Irascible Professor Blog

"Administrative bloat" is not on my Top Ten List of evil things in academia. Nevertheless, since this is a perennial issue at my campus, I pass along the following post from a blog in California.
http://irascibleprofessor.com/comments-07-14-11.htm
HT: George Leef at NAS Blog

2 comments:

Ralph David Westfall said...

Given the competition for scarce resources and the impacts in particular on tuition costs, may I suggest that administrative bloat should make it into your top 10 acadmic evils list? (Disclosure: I'm the author of the linked piece.)

testing05401 said...

Actually, I AM coming around to that viewpoint. Administrative bloat coupled with the Peter Principle!