alt Hacker NewsWhy pay for more of those expensive, unruly, hard-to-fire professors when you can hire cheap adjuncts and postdocs to do teaching and research?
The administrative organization continues to expand, and it must be paid for somehow.
Why pay for more of those expensive, unruly, hard-to-fire professors when you can hire cheap adjuncts and postdocs to do teaching and research?
The administrative organization continues to expand, and it must be paid for somehow.
Bureaucracy has gone up, sure, but not nearly as much as the number of people seeking PhDs.
That also used to be much less common back in the day.