The Overstaffing Of Higher Education
There’s a tremendous amount of hand-wringing about the cost of college, whether college should be free, student loan debt, all that. These are political flash points (flashpoints?) for a lot of people. I can tell you that I very briefly worked for TCU, a job I ultimately resigned from (right before they went 12–0 in college football, LOL), and I worked within the “Chancellor’s Office” — P.S. Chancellor Boschini there makes over $2M for an university currently ranked 83rd in America — and I sat on the second floor of the Harrison Building for about three months. I was considered a full-time “marketing copywriter.” I had literally next to nothing to do every day. On that floor, in my section, were about 14 other people. From 11am to 2pm every day (around lunchtime), you almost never saw anyone. I mean, like, not a soul. That’s roughly 15 hours of work time per week. Let’s say five of those are guaranteed one-hour lunch breaks. The other 10? Unclear.
It was at a point over there where my direct boss, who spoke to me maybe once every eight days, went on vacation for a bit. Her boss was supposed to assign me work and monitor me, etc. On the first day of that dynamic, he told me he “didn’t really know what I was working on” and told me to complete a couple of LinkedIn Learning courses. I…
