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He portrays teachers and administrators as workers trying to get by: teachers minimize effort, while administrators sell the school by giving parents what they want.
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He portrays teachers and administrators as workers trying to get by: teachers minimize effort, while administrators sell the school by giving parents what they want.
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Jiang's main explanation is that universities became bureaucracies: instead of teaching and research, they promote administrators who want salaries, offices, and self-justifying power.
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In the Yale Law incident, Jiang says administrators blocked direct student-to-student resolution and used reputation and career threats to pressure Trevor Cooper into apology.
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Jiang treats the USC complaint over a Chinese filler word as bureaucratic absurdity: administrators took a bad-faith or prank-like complaint seriously because doing so protected their jobs and image.
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Jiang predicts that many US universities will face similar bankruptcies over the next five to ten years because top managers are extracting together.
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Jiang says every federal bureaucracy shows a similar ratio problem: too many administrators and managers who do little, too few people doing science, engineering, and real work.
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Jiang says US healthcare costs are driven not by superior care but by exploding administrators who invent ways to deny or complicate claims.
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Jiang closes with the broadest version of his university critique: school type and major do not matter because the system exists for managers and administrators to feed off it.
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"...do a minimum amount of work in order to get by. Administrators, they want good outcomes. But what their real priority is to protect..."
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"This is a job for them. They also just want to get by. Okay? They're not trying to build the best school possible. They're..."
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"second explanation okay the third explanation is ideological so the idea is that at universities universities are overrun by the left -wing professors who..."
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"in order to promote the interests of the administrators who want to sit in their office get really nice get get a really big..."
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"Their names are Eldick and Cosgrove, okay? And what Trevor Cooper does is, he actually records the meeting, okay, secretly. For 20 minutes, they..."
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"I don't want to hear this from you. I want to hear what they think, okay? And then what happens is that the deans,..."
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"So what happened was some black students, African American students, who were not in his class, okay? Wrote a letter of complaint. And honestly,..."
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"So this is a ridiculous idea. And honestly, it sounds like a joke, okay? It just sounds like these students are playing a joke...."
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"...increase in student enrollment but look at this senior management deans administrators managers boom okay boom this is called rent -seeking behavior this is..."
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"were marianne's the filings for 2020 alone showed over 18 000 in lease and insurance payments for the short cars okay so they had..."
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"...it's pretty flat but look at the managers look at the administrators"
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"...the military. It's every single U.S. government department, okay? All the administrators, you see massive increase in administration, all right? So people who do..."
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