Eva von Dassow has already made a starring appearance on this blog, complaining about the benighted University of Minnesota, where she teaches. This luminous personality is at it again in the Star Tribune, in a piece written with Timothy Brennan:
… [I]n one category, expenditures have nearly doubled over the last five years. That category is “institutional support,” which consists essentially of central administration. The 2008-09 budget plan increases expenditures for institutional support by more than $143 million, or 80 percent, over the figure for 2004-05. The spending increase in this category alone covers the amount by which the governor proposes to reduce the state’s annual appropriation to the university.
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Thanks for the tip, Bill.
April 7th, 2009 at 12:55PM
I don’t know whether this is reasonable. All of those incredibly rigorous degrees in higher education administration–why, the private sector must be clamoring for their services! Besides, don’t we need administrations that we can be proud of? With their own McMansions, pearly-white Lexi, cherry-paneled offices and such?