I suspect these debt problems will only grow for a long time to come.
I read your article at the Sun. Of course, you are correct about the value of compensation clawback with respect to the salaries of these top university executives. The amounts in general paid out to top administrators of these institutions astound me, let alone the absurdity of some of the bonuses they are given. But what bothers me even more is the obscene administrative bloat in general -- and in particular the portion of it given over to imposing ideological conformity, via DEI, Title IX departments, etc., along with ideologically focused admissions offices as well. The cost of all this helps produce the student debt problems our president seeks to alleviate in exactly the wrong way for crass pandering political purposes.
And the cost, in the monetary sense, is not even as terrible as the cost in terms of moral failure and intellectual deterioration. You hint at these costs by referring to past university presidents as leaving "their successors with grave problems by admitting students and hiring professors who have contributed to the outbreak of campus antisemitism." It seems to me an entire administrative machinery is in place in these institutions shaping them in these destructive ways. I fear it's going to take a second "long march through the institutions " to undo the rot from the first one.
I suspect these debt problems will only grow for a long time to come.
I read your article at the Sun. Of course, you are correct about the value of compensation clawback with respect to the salaries of these top university executives. The amounts in general paid out to top administrators of these institutions astound me, let alone the absurdity of some of the bonuses they are given. But what bothers me even more is the obscene administrative bloat in general -- and in particular the portion of it given over to imposing ideological conformity, via DEI, Title IX departments, etc., along with ideologically focused admissions offices as well. The cost of all this helps produce the student debt problems our president seeks to alleviate in exactly the wrong way for crass pandering political purposes.
And the cost, in the monetary sense, is not even as terrible as the cost in terms of moral failure and intellectual deterioration. You hint at these costs by referring to past university presidents as leaving "their successors with grave problems by admitting students and hiring professors who have contributed to the outbreak of campus antisemitism." It seems to me an entire administrative machinery is in place in these institutions shaping them in these destructive ways. I fear it's going to take a second "long march through the institutions " to undo the rot from the first one.
Thanks for reading and for taking the time to write this very thoughtful and well crafted comment!