"The surging cost of higher education" is this:
31 years ago, at a Southern engineering school, I walked into my advisor's office. He threw down a copy of the University's student newspaper and said, "Today's a sad day for this school. They just announced that there are now more administrators than professors here."
31 years ago.

I suggest giving Alex a job in the DOGE.

"When Reason dies
Emotions rise, and
Civilizations crumble"

Joseph W Gabriele

Shame, Damn Shame

Great article!!!!!!!!

More bloat, power and corruption all enabled by the Government. Without which Brown could not continue its bloat in the face of competition. Federal funding and silly accreditation and god knows what other federal and state rules.

We need to start another Hillsdale, but this one with engineering and other degrees that actually provide value, not just liberal arts.

Looks like like Brown's local version of the DS got poked and it doesn't like it. Too bad.

This trend is everywhere that I've worked.
The "Fraggles" outnumber the "Doozers" by a wide margin.

Elitism is everywhere.

When raising my two daughters, I implored them to learn the basics of car repair and maintenance for their own safety. Their reply was: "That's what mechanics are for".

They weren't raised to think of themselves as above others, but the culture took deeper root than parenting did.

One administrative employee for every four students? That is atrocious, greed, graft, criminal, and all. I wonder what the ratio at Harvard is? But then too, Harvard's got people drawing off it that no one even knows about.

The following was written in 2020 by Bradley Thomas on http://thesavvystreet.com.

"There’s little debate that modern-day American universities, public education, mainstream media, Hollywood, and political advocacy groups are dominated by leftists. This is no accident, but part of a deliberate strategy to pave the way for communist revolution developed more than eight decades ago by an Italian political theorist named Antonio Gramsci..."


https://www.thesavvystreet.com/the-ne...

Communist revolution has been and is being waged relentlessly and successfully worldwide.

I am sure, like my Michigan State University, that it is NOT the same place you attended.

I lost all respect for Brown when I saw how many woke/entitled professors were working there, and how uneducated their statements were (Pro-Vaxx).

Long before that, I stopped giving to MSU, and will NEVER give again... When they had the RAs listing their pronouns. Sorry, you lost me.

I could overlook many of the "Personnel" issues (The Raping Coach) as "They didn't know". But that was a line too far.

The only thing I experienced was AGE Discrimination. As a student, I applied for an RA (Resident Assistant) Position. They said I was too old (I was 20.5 when I started, because I worked full-time before going to school). I was shocked.

Things worked out better for me, because that opportunity did not happen. So no complaints.
(One door closes, another opens).

But these places are insane. Built on Meritocracy. Destroyed by "Equity"