Archive for the ‘Administration’ Category

This is an issue I’ve been thinking about every so often lately, so I was interested when I saw this post on the subject from Professor-in-Training pop up in my Google Reader. A senior coworker at a non-academic research job once told me that the best thing about his work was the opportunity to routinely [...]


David J. Skorton, the president of Cornell, said he was using the financial crisis as further motivation to grapple with administrative costs. “We know we have had too much of a proliferation of assistant deans and assistants to … ” Dr. Skorton said. “And this crisis has stiffened my spine about it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/education/15bain.html The old-fashioned [...]



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