05-23-2019, 09:58 PM
(05-23-2019, 05:39 PM)bfine32 Wrote: And failing to treat them as a business has been the demise of a few. If if I recall from an earlier conversation you are very involved in the business side of higher education. And if you remember from that same conversation, so am I.
I am very much involved in the business side of academia, which is why I understand that some things are business decisions, and some things should not be.
(05-23-2019, 05:39 PM)bfine32 Wrote: To state there's not a difference in the way a public and private institution are funded is absurd and it is the biggest difference.
I don't think anyone said that.
(05-23-2019, 05:39 PM)bfine32 Wrote: If I am a big endower at a private institution and I have heartburn with staff faculty walking out on my school, a fellow christian, my former Governor, and current VP. It has a tremendous greater impact than if I'm that same person at a public university. And the private institution may be much more motivated to give me satisfaction.
And this is why academia is failing. It's the same premise as lobbyists ruling the roost in our government. This inhibits the free exchange of ideas in academia which results in its decline. Institutions should be seeking out donors that value higher education, and if a donor would withhold funds for something like this then they do not value what it is all about.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
