alt Hacker NewsIt’s not rocket science, but you’re vastly underestimating what it takes to run a modern university. Not to mention things like security and support, which a university is not setup well to handle in house. The phds should be spending their time learning and doing research, not managing admin software.
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browningstreet • today at 4:33 AM
I went to an Arizona university in the 90s and our class registration system was far more customizable and feature-ful than what my son lives with now. His university has half the students mine did and they, across two decades, shared a university president.
I think it might also be something else.
> The phds should be spending their time learning and doing research, not managing admin software
I guess we could also flip it and ask why don't we offer PhDs in developing software for public administration?