{"id":5714,"date":"2015-09-21T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2015-09-21T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T00:30:23","slug":"worth-sharing-why-is-college-so-expensive-if-professors-are-paid-so-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/21\/worth-sharing-why-is-college-so-expensive-if-professors-are-paid-so-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Why Is College So Expensive if Professors Are Paid So Little?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/why-is-college-so-expensive-if-professors-are-paid-so-little\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/professor_ss_img.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>These are educational professionals, and they need to be compensated\u00a0like they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The short answer is ADMINISTRATION.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"socialHighlighted\"> <\/span>But the hyperinflated price tag of college has funneled toward another aspect of the higher education system: <a href=\"http:\/\/necir.org\/2014\/02\/06\/new-analysis-shows-problematic-boom-in-higher-ed-administrators\/\" target=\"_blank\">driving funds into administrative offices<\/a>\u2014a pattern \u201creflected in increases in the numbers of administrative positions, increases in those salaries, and increases in the percentage of college budgets going to these functions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Canada, it is also partly because the federal and provincial governments\u00a0are providing less and less funding.<\/p>\n<p>What none of these guys seem to understand (perhaps because they&#8217;re mostly lawyers and economists) is that education is one of the best investments they can make.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/why-is-college-so-expensive-if-professors-are-paid-so-little\/\">Why Is College So Expensive if Professors Are Paid So Little?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-5714'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5714);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>1 person likes this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5714);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(5714);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>These are educational professionals, and they need to be compensated\u00a0like they are. The short answer is ADMINISTRATION. &nbsp; But the hyperinflated price tag of college has funneled toward another aspect of the higher education system: driving funds into administrative offices\u2014a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/09\/21\/worth-sharing-why-is-college-so-expensive-if-professors-are-paid-so-little\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,369,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-higher-education","category-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1ua","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6013,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/11\/06\/competency-based-assessment-everything-old-is-new-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":5714,"position":0},"title":"Competency-Based Assessment: Everything Old is New Again","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Like I've said before, much of gamification really isn't new at all. This is an example. Competency-based assessment is one of the corner-stones of my gamified designs, along with giving students access to almost all of the assignments at the start of term and letting go of deadlines. One of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"gamification-10","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gamification-10-300x300.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1630,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/03\/17\/ipads-for-college-classrooms-not-so-fast-some-professors-say-technology-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":5714,"position":1},"title":"iPads for College Classrooms? 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Not So Fast, Some Professors Say. - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education. early studies indicate that these finger-based tablets are passive devices that have limited use in higher education. professors cannot use them to mark up material on the fly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6846,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/22\/worth-sharing-would-college-students-retain-more-if-professors-dialed-back-the-pace\/","url_meta":{"origin":5714,"position":2},"title":"Worth Sharing: Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Why do we forget so much of what we read? Anthropologist Barbara J. 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