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Gary Smith
Date
July 31, 2026

Categorized
Business and Finance, Education

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Colleges and Universities: Still on a Road to Nowhere

_{One cost-saving proposal has been to eliminate courses with ten or fewer students, irrespective of what the course is teaching} _{Gary Smith
July 31, 2026

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Business and Finance, Education}

Significantly, no administrators who were contacted recommended reducing schools’ budget woes by reducing the number of administrators.

Parkinson’s Law Is the Key to Understanding Bureaucratic Bloat

_{The experience of one small university offers a useful example} _{Gary Smith
July 20, 2026

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Economics, Education}

I spent 55 years as an eyewitness to this disaster, watching a relatively lean and efficient enterprise turn into a distended, barely recognizable caricature.