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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (51554)	6/20/2002 7:22:02 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Yes, and it is mostly that which keeps driving up the expense and creating the need for subsidy. The usual blather about only 75% of the expense of the students' education being covered by tuition is untrue, unless you think that all of these inefficiencies have educational value. People are paying for conventions like sabbaticals, and the maintenance of the universities as research institutions. Of course, a lot of research is worthless, and only published in journals that are largely unread. The "publish or perish" standard makes for a lot of vanity publication, and is unrelated to one's ability as a classroom teacher. Additionally, there are many grants and fellowships that supplement income, and they are liberally spread around, which encourages and abundance of dubious projects. The universities themselves provide libraries geared to professorial needs, graduate research assistants, office stipends, and other incentives to churn out nonsense.........