Unfortunately, my experience in government and the wider non-profit world is identical to what…

…this backdrop, how can the future of academia be better than the present? Unfortunately, it cannot. Just as entropy always increases according to the second law of thermodynamics, bureaucracy only increases in time according to the first law of governance. Once administrators dominate academic life, they introduce new rules and require more administrators to enforce them. And once politics was introduced to academia, it cannot be rooted out because current members were …
Surviving as an Extremophile in the Acidic Life of Academia
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Avi Loeb
Tim Barden
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May 23, 2024
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Unfortunately, my experience in government and the wider non-profit world is identical to what you've described in education.
I do wonder how the impact of AI and the move to machine labour will affect the layers of bureaucratic bloat sucking resources and spirit from otherwise worthy organizations.
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