Comments on: Funding Higher Education http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/02/27/funding-higher-education/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:46:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: thursday afternoon links: econ and education edition « orgtheory.net http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/02/27/funding-higher-education/#comment-73217 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:51:11 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/funding-higher-education/#comment-73217 [...] Over at Orgs and Markets,  two posts on university salaries. This one on public schools and this one on private [...]

]]> By: Cliff Grammich http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/02/27/funding-higher-education/#comment-73160 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:11:25 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/funding-higher-education/#comment-73160 Ruth and Hoover were the characters I recall in the apocryphal wage story. (See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth and http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=babe_ruth_1895. The latter has a great line from Red Smith: Ruth knew too little about politics for the story to be true.)

Digression: I recall another story (some discussion, including how apocryphal it may be, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Kiner) about Ralph Kiner asking for a raise after the 1950 season, in which he led the National League in home runs but Pittsburgh trailed the league in wins. He was told the Pirates could have finished last without his home runs, hence no raise. I’ll let others speculate on the applicability to academic departments.

Perhaps a bit less of a digression, on the low-end subsidizing the high-end: it never ceases to amaze me that there isn’t more outrage about state-run lotteries that fleece the poor and dumb (or should I just say profit from the purchases of those possibly less knowledgeable about probaility?) to support the education of the rich and smart.

I also suspect the story Dick Langlois tells of Connecticut applies many other places. Indeed, some Texas colleagues have told me similar things, although I don’t know what has happened with tuition and subsidies there in recent years.

]]> By: Rafe Champion http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/02/27/funding-higher-education/#comment-73149 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:11:21 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/funding-higher-education/#comment-73149 Andrew Norton, editor of the CIS jourral “Policy” in Australia is a prolific commentator on the follies and foibles of uni funding.

For some of Andrew’s contributions.

http://andrewnorton.info/2009/02/kate-elliss-red-tape-machine/

http://andrewnorton.info/2009/02/the-bradley-enrolment-target/

http://andrewnorton.info/2009/02/what-do-higher-education-subsidies-achieve/

http://andrewnorton.info/2009/02/the-bradley-reports-social-democratic-delusion/

]]> By: david http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2009/02/27/funding-higher-education/#comment-73142 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:15:21 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/funding-higher-education/#comment-73142 What a great topic. I hope to see this fleshed out in the next iteration of your organizations slides. It is a wonder that equity only gets brought up on the low-end (helping poor people) and not the high-end (heavily subsidizing rich people) in the state university tuition rate discussion.

I think the apocryphal wage story is from Babe Ruth and the US president.

Over at Michael Munger’s blog, he is continuing to fight the good fight about coaches and schools going to the bank on the backs of the performers.

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