"Petraeus and the Military-University-Corporate Complex ": Forgotten in this orgy of misplaced congratulations are the corporation’s workers, whose efforts are now rewarded by salaries that continue to shrink to smaller and smaller proportions of CEO salaries. Correspondingly, at the university, administrator salaries and expenses increase, while faculty salaries stagnate. Corporate CEOs, meanwhile, are admired for their "efficiency," even as corporate America resembles an expensive, wasteful, top-heavy, bureaucracy, as beleaguered faculty find out every time they encounter a university administration’s ironically baroque plan—one designed by expensive management consultants—to curb inefficiency. In Hanif Kureishi’s indictment of Thatcherite England, My Beautiful Laundrette, the wheeling-and-dealing Uncle Nasser tells nephew Omar to "squeeze the tits of the system." Petraeus, CUNY administration and many others like them have their hands full.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:48:37 +0000
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