If we ever get serious about reducing higher education costs:
- Yes, we would cut back on higher ed administrators. Lots of fat there. Lots of bloat. I speak from experience mostly at my current position at a community college. My previous two CC positions were with colleges that didn't have more admins than you could shake a stick at.
- Get the federal government out of FA.
- Allow students to test out of certain basic skills and/or establish certain professional standards and bodies of knowledge and let the students self-study towards passing those tests. No mumbo, no jumbo. Teachers would then be more less used as needed as tutors and guides. Certain corporations provide tests to new employees anyway to verify that they know what they should no somewhat ignoring what the education system says they know.
- Cultivate more online MOOC's and so forth as the basis for education instead of the messy way we do it now.
- I hate to say it, because it goes against my own self-interests, but we probably should rely more on adjuncts and less on FT tenured faculty anyway. Isn't everyone pretty much part-time nowadays almost as it is? I am not, and God knows, I think my lucky stars on a daily basis.