A Brilliant Plan?

By Margaret Andrews. With all the talk about MOOCs – how more students can be taught by the best faculty, how they will increase access and reduce costs – someone has come up with an idea for how to save money in the administrative area. For the past few years, there have been a glut of articles lamenting the rise of college costs, many of them pointing to the rise of the administrative class in higher education as one of the main culprits. There have been articles in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Washington Monthly. Read more...