https://www.cspicenter.com/p/its-time-to-review-the-institut...
classic feature creep + bureaucratization (so it's now done by a special class of IRB administrators, not really by peers, etc)
classic feature creep + bureaucratization (so it's now done by a special class of IRB administrators, not really by peers, etc)
This is, after all, what the students are paying in their tuition, which is becoming a major burden on the American middle class.
(Ironically, "tuition" as a word promises that the money is mostly spent on teaching, not on administration and amenities.)
There is a strange reluctance on the American liberal left to criticize greediness in academia or even acknowledge that such thing exists. Politically, I get it, the academia is overwhelmingly liberal-left, so there is an instinct not to alienate it. But there surely must be some upper bound to the growth of tuition costs, after which the burden becomes unbearable.
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I think the cognitive dissonance is more that administrative types want to think of their positions as necessary to the proper functioning of things.