Professor: One Reason Why Universities Became Day Cares | Intellectual Takeout

Professor: One Reason Why Universities Became Day Cares | Intellectual Takeout:
"Last fall, university president Dr. Everett Piper made headlines when he warned students that college was not intended to be a day care, but “a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.”
The realization that many of today’s university students have not grown up has caught on with the general public, and many are now wondering how such a thing happened.
One of the individuals pondering this development is Professor Jonathan Zimmerman.
In an article for Aeon, Zimmerman opines that increased emphasis on campus bureaucracy may have been a major contributor to the “infantilizing” of today’s students:
“[The years between 1976 and 2012] witnessed a dramatic shift in patterns of university employment, away from faculty and towards administrators.
In 1975, universities had almost twice as many professors as administrators; 40 years later, the administrators outnumber the faculty.
Over this span, the number of ‘executive, administrative, and managerial employees’ at universities rose by 85 per cent; meanwhile, so-called ‘professional staff’ – accountants, counsellors, and so on – ballooned by an astonishing 240 per cent.
...As universities layered on more and more bureaucracy, students came to believe that every campus problem had a bureaucratic solution..."
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