This public university just announced massive layoffs. Is all higher ed at risk? (therealnews.com)

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[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

While I agree, the cuts need to happen and they need to be purely targeted at administration which exploded over the boom years.

We had massive growth and very little of that revenue made it to either research or actual teaching.

Fire the admin staff from education and healthcare, we need to make those sectors work again.

[-] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's the facilities costs that have truly exploded in the past couple of decades. Every university is in an arms race to build the biggest, most advanced campus possible. They've forgotten that their goal is to be a place of study and instead they're trying to have world-class architecture so they can woo students. Students would go there so long as the damn programs are well run and they have a good reputation.

Just stop the gigantic capital projects and suddenly you've got plenty of capital. Hmm.