{"id":19723,"date":"2022-09-16T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T20:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=19723"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T20:50:45","slug":"columbia-whistleblower-on-exposing-college-rankings-they-are-worthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2022\/09\/16\/columbia-whistleblower-on-exposing-college-rankings-they-are-worthless\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings: \u2018They are worthless\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cI\u2019ve long believed that all university rankings are essentially worthless. They\u2019re based on data that have very little to do with the academic merit of an institution and that the data might not be accurate in the first place,\u201d Thaddeus said.

\u2026The former head of Columbia\u2019s mathematics department described an expanding and self-replicating bureaucracy that is growing ever more expensive to maintain. He said that Columbia\u2019s endowment is not large enough to cover the cost of the growing administration and so it is paid for by increasing tuition costs.
\u201cIt means that our educational programmes have to be run to some degree as money-making ventures. That is the secret that can\u2019t be openly acknowledged,\u201d he said.

\u2026\u201cIt\u2019s clear that the growth of university bureaucracies and administration has been a major driver of the cost of higher education growing much, much faster than inflation. We now have about 4,500 administrators on the main campus, about three times the number of faculty, and that\u2019s a new development over the past 20 years,\u201d he said.

\u201cWhat is less clear is what all these administrators are actually doing.\u201d More here<\/a>.

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\u201cI\u2019ve long believed that all university rankings are essentially worthless. They\u2019re based on data that have very little to do with the academic merit of an institution and that the data might not be accurate in the first place,\u201d Thaddeus said. \u2026The former head of Columbia\u2019s mathematics department described an expanding and self-replicating bureaucracy that … Continue reading Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings: \u2018They are worthless\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19724,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19723\/revisions\/19724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}