[–] fuck_communism 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Yes.
At my uni there is a whole 'urban affairs' department dedicated to providing jobs, benefits, pensions, and office services to political has beens, never was', and various hangers on. Each member gets full faculty benefits in spite of only teaching 0 to 1 classes a semester. This department occupies several floors of an $80 million cutting edge leed platinum 'green' building (could have been built for $25 million and still been 'green') built by the political establishment's favorite contractor.
At this same uni there are dozens of 6 figure BS administrative positions created to provide jobs for friends and family of the political class.
The largest public uni in my state has a publicly funded to the tune of $10 million a year 'think tank' devoted to training union officials and agitators.
[–] Citizen 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Private colleges or public universities?
Private colleges are not corrupt; they wear their intentions on their sleeves. Many are in it for the money; others have different motives; but they are all quite open about their motivation.
Public universities were primarily intended to be research institutions for the betterment of mankind. Education was a byproduct of the need for tuition money to fund research. Somehow they lost their way, and those who are supposed to use money to lubricate the flow of research are instead using research to lubricate the flow of money.
I would say that they have been corrupted, but not in the traditional sense of bribery and graft. Instead, the very institutions have been subverted from a public institution for the greater good into a business whose main purpose is to make money.
[–] un_salamandre 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don't know, but your lack of a question mark tells me they're at least not useless.
[–] Scruffy_Nerfherder 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That's my secret; I think everything is corrupt.
[–] RedNowGrey 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Are you talking about nonprofit, or for-profit universities?
[–] thesuperpapagai [S] ago
Both, but is there really a difference?
[–] RedNowGrey 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yes. Graduation rates of for-profit universities is abysmal. Non-profit higher educational institutions tend to admit only students who be able to accomplish the work necessary to graduate. For-profit institutions tend to admit only students who can pay, by cash, loan or GI bill.
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[–] thesuperpapagai [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Colleges only do this to avoid being seen as "controversial" so they can appear more marketable.
[–] CantBuySkills 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Corrupt, not necessarily... sell outs, definitely. What some universities do is purely based off of the wishes of the people who make the most donations to their campus.