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The beauty of MBA administrators

i wasn't saying at all that I should set someone else's red line but i do think people should have one

It's also clear that the ostensibly temporary belt-tightening after the '08 crisis was just cover for a wholesale disinvestment in public higher ed, which in turn has led to the ruthless cost/benefit, job-training-above-all-else lens through which every program must justify its existence.

Hell, they don't even like their students! The latter just get in the way of administrators' quest for more money, more power and elite status. Most univ presidents aren't even capable of keeping track of the work and budgets of their management team, resulting in bad operational decisions & grift.

For the same reason that people keep taking jobs in the Trump administration - they want all the prestige without doing any of the work.

Since when do we manage educational programs by what’s “popular?” 😡