From "where fun goes to die" to "where funds go to die."
Per Dr. Ando, managerial missteps hastened U of Chicago's transition from quirky but lovable intellectual giant to debt-ridden simulacrum.
As former member of the faculty (briefly), this is hard to read.
Perhaps the hundreds of dollars in postage they spent sending mail to my daughter 2-3 times a week, despite her never indicating any interest, suggests a carelessness with money.
Agreed. A missing component? The transformation from institutes of higher learning to "real estate holding companies" - expansion of property & building has transformed them into bottom-line companies hi-debt whose trustees & upper admin are skilled to focused on this. They never saw it coming.
As an alumna and former grad student/instructor, also hard to read.
How very Tara
"Suburban teens in our focus groups called the Core Curriculum "cheugy", and wanted the university to rejoin the Big Ten ASAP."
