For one, it can be leaner; tenure-line faculty to student ratios are unchanged while adminstrator-to-student ratios more than doubled in the last 25 years. "There are now two nonacademic employees at public and two and…
My academic friends and I are constantly talking about how we need startups to counter/disintermediate the constantly growing administrative overhead at universities. Without viable alternatives there is just no…
As a researcher, I've run the numbers on what it would take to start a new nonprofit research institute. Assuming some other sources of revenue (e.g. grants), 10M was actually the sweet spot to get a minimum sustainable…
For one, it can be leaner; tenure-line faculty to student ratios are unchanged while adminstrator-to-student ratios more than doubled in the last 25 years. "There are now two nonacademic employees at public and two and…
My academic friends and I are constantly talking about how we need startups to counter/disintermediate the constantly growing administrative overhead at universities. Without viable alternatives there is just no…
As a researcher, I've run the numbers on what it would take to start a new nonprofit research institute. Assuming some other sources of revenue (e.g. grants), 10M was actually the sweet spot to get a minimum sustainable…