tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180769075610486242.post8151880468691780278..comments2024-01-02T09:45:52.570-05:00Comments on Lost in Transcription Has Moved!!: The case for independent scholarship #2: Administrative bloatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04284995441818864226noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180769075610486242.post-23962270273588965012012-08-31T10:39:04.856-04:002012-08-31T10:39:04.856-04:00Jack, I did not intend to imply that administrator...Jack, I did not intend to imply that administrators have _no_ value. While your point about the changes in the types of support staff needed between the seventies and today is valid, it is not at all obvious to me that there is an increased need for administrators relative to forty years ago. I think the question is, why is the set of administrators expanding?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04284995441818864226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180769075610486242.post-1023300526080348362012-08-30T05:50:20.132-04:002012-08-30T05:50:20.132-04:00"Fundamentally, the problem is that people in..."Fundamentally, the problem is that people in administration see a valuable role for administrators, and devalue everything done by everyone else."<br /><br />Isn't what you're doing here fundamentally the reverse? You're acting like administrators have no value and contribute nothing to teaching or research but this simply isn't the case.<br /><br />Meanwhile I'm not convinced that you're making a like-for-like comparison in the number of support staff since there has considerable change since 75/6, for example I'd assume a significant number of clerical and secretarial staff in 1976 were employed as typing pool.Jacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180769075610486242.post-42562849813854174222012-08-22T01:52:13.105-04:002012-08-22T01:52:13.105-04:00I would love to see a departmental breakdown of th...I would love to see a departmental breakdown of the M&P numbers from both sample years. Do you think the CSU board of trustees has seen such a breakdown? In my experience those people have no special love of administrators. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com