Yale report on colleges

Thanks for posting that. The point about tuition cost transparency is a good one. I’ve seen a few instances of that by institution but didn’t realize how wide spread price transparency issues were. Sure there’s a calculator but if someone is trying to understand the costs between Yale, Harvard, UPenn, Michigan etc etc that is a lot of extra work. And it generates a lot of internal overhead and dependencies for the internal institutional economy.

Bureaucracy will continue to be a soapbox for me but higher ed is hindered there by a lot of external pressures. Most large research universities have financial, medical, DoE, DoD, educational etc regulations and probably makes them the most regulated sector anywhere. Add to that the min-maxing most corporations are doing these days and its compliance mess. Software (just as one example) has largely gone from a concurrent user model to a complex flow chart for most of the many hundreds of necessary software titles. I’ve seen a grad student who has 2 different research activities have to use 3 different licenses for the same software (which was the only software that could do the job and is owned by a massive corp). One for their education uses, one for their for campus side research activity, and one for their medical side research. Same software. 3 licenses.