You come to this website to read blogs such as this one, of course. But the gold is generally in the sidebar of openings available in higher ed.
How are colleges allocating their “human resources” these days?
Too often in the last decade, the spending by colleges and universities for new jobs and the like has either stayed steady or gone down.
That is except for one area — sports.
It’s been a real boom-time for sports in college, according to “Losing Focus,” a recently released report by the American Association of University Professors.
In case you missed it, the New York Times pulled this quote from the report: “Increasingly, institutions of higher education have lost their focus on the academic activities at the core of their mission. …The spending priority accorded to competitive athletics too easily diverts the focus of our institutions from teaching and learning to scandal and excess.”
Stinging indictment? Or old news? Maybe for the big-time programs of Division I schools.
