It’s the administrators that need investigated. My wife has been a professor for 17 years, and at the same school for the past 8, and makes less than 20k a year. The president of the university makes over 400k and has no background in education (she was a bank executive). Schools are run on a business model and are for profit now, not for educating. It is more important to increase enrollment now and get that first year of tuition than it is to graduate students. The result is now everyone gets accepted, and the students who have potential still drop out because the professors have to try to cater to the students who shouldn’t be there in the first place. Universities used to focus on accepting those who would last 4 years but that is not as profitable as overloading the front end. Unfortunately, government funding would not solve this problem, but perhaps exacerbate it unless the states set up a review board to fully investigate where the money went in each state funded school.
It’s the administrators that need investigated. My wife has been a professor for 17 years, and at the same school for the past 8, and makes less than 20k a year. The president of the university makes over 400k and has no background in education (she was a bank executive). Schools are run on a business model and are for profit now, not for educating. It is more important to increase enrollment now and get that first year of tuition than it is to graduate students. The result is now everyone gets accepted, and the students who have potential still drop out because the professors have to try to cater to the students who shouldn’t be there in the first place. Universities used to focus on accepting those who would last 4 years but that is not as profitable as overloading the front end. Unfortunately, government funding would not solve this problem, but perhaps exacerbate it unless the states set up a review board to fully investigate where the money went in each state funded school.