Un-Occupy Mailman

~ Goethe

"...a large increase in layers of administration and bureaucracy. If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it"

William Hutchinson Murray interpreting Goethe

Students challenge the "tale of two Columbias." "Many members of Mailman’s Board of Overseers have private interests in Wall Street, the for-profit health industry, and environmentally toxic industries like fracking. This raises questions about Mailman’s priorities," writes Epi doctoral student Seth Prins. "A Columbia where one-percenters wield influence while fundamental social science faces extinction is unacceptable.

As universities turn toward corporate management models, they increasingly use and exploit cheap faculty labor while expanding the ranks of their managerial class.

The fate of Carole Vance and Kim Hopper should worry everyone who wants academics to play a larger role in public debates.

Columbia University is rich. This was brought home to me many years ago, the first time that -- a kid from the countryside -- I visited Rockefeller Center. As I walked through the marmoreal plazas ...

Caption: "Have administrators at Columbia’s Mailman School considered closing their budget gap with a bake sale? Maybe asking faculty to shill gift wrap and ginormous candy bars door to door?" Claire Potter, "Oh Brave New World,"http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2014/03/oh-brave-new-world/

"Here’s a novel way to lighten the burden of paying faculty salaries: make them figure out how to pay their own salaries!"