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College, land of alcohol poisoning…

And so we open the new year with the stories of Helaina Horvitz at Salon which includes such tidbits as:

On Thanksgiving Day, I landed at New York Downtown Hospital for alcohol poisoning, my fourth time since I started college.

“She’s the ninth one today,” the nurse whispered to the doctor when he arrived, shooting my parents a disapproving look. It was no coincidence that three college dormitories were within a four-block radius of the hospital. I am never drinking again, I resolved. And I meant it. But I failed, and failed again.

In other news, she had good grades (3.8 gpa) and graduated yet managed to turn herself into an alcoholic at school. Gotta love those dorms for which we pay so much as parents.

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  1. Deans List: Hiring Spree Fattens College Bureaucracy—And Tuition
    By DOUGLAS BELKIN and SCOTT THURM
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323316804578161490716042814.html

    A Wall Street Journal analysis of University of Minnesota salary and employment records from 2001 through last spring shows that the system added more than 1,000 administrators over that period. Their ranks grew 37%, more than twice as fast as the teaching corps and nearly twice as fast as the student body.

    Across U.S. higher education, nonclassroom costs have ballooned, administrative payrolls being a prime example. The number of employees hired by colleges and universities to manage or administer people, programs and regulations increased 50% faster than the number of instructors between 2001 and 2011, the U.S. Department of Education says. It’s part of the reason that tuition, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has risen even faster than health-care costs.

    1. Walter Sobchak on January 3rd, 2013 at 4:25 am

  2. “An F for effort on holding down tuition” By Charles Lane, December 31, 2012
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-lane-big-bloat-on-campus/2012/12/31/649c12b8-536b-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_story.html

    Surely this generation will question, radically, the traditional calculus that tells them it’s a good career move to borrow and spend tens of thousands of dollars so that they can have their intelligence ratified by a bunch of PhDs who aren’t even on Instagram.

    In the meantime, government should condition more of its support for higher-ed on actual cost-cutting by institutions. The days of pouring government money into the existing business model, no strings attached, need to end.

    2. Walter Sobchak on January 3rd, 2013 at 4:28 am