In support of his article Prometheus on the Quad, Dr. Corvo—professor of social work at Syracuse University—recently sat down with Walter Olson to discuss the trend of increasing administration on college campuses. Walter Olson is Senior Fellow, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute. Here’s the link to this podcast:
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/he-rise-university-administration
Here’s how the Cato Institute introduces this podcast:
“When Syracuse University forced its social work faculty to partner with a for-profit corporation that takes two-thirds of online tuition revenue, professor Kenneth Corvo began investigating where student money actually goes in higher education. His findings reveal a systemic problem across American universities: more administrators than faculty at the college level, expanding bureaucracies focused on ‘student experience’ and compliance, and minimal transparency about how tuition dollars are spent. The discussion with Cato’s Walter Olson traces how federal funding, regulatory requirements, and the erosion of scientific rigor have combined to create institutions that increasingly fail their core educational mission.”
The FHL Foundation supported Dr. Corvo’s article Prometheus on the Quad. We feel that attacks on science coming from both sides of the isle in support of what many call “culture wars” should be of concern to us all. As the authors writing in the edited volume Anti-Science and the Assault on Democracy make clear (and the message is in the title), attacks on science amount to attacks on democracy. Where goes science so too democracy. Dr. Corvo looks at these trend in detail in Prometheus. He also offers up some possible solutions. Prometheus can be read by accessing the following op-ed over at LearningWell.com.
