Business schools are voluntarily privatizing by forgoing state funds for flexibility

Evidence

The Haas School of Business at Berkeley, for example, has three dozen full-time positions related to alumni relations and development, one for every three faculty members. The UCLA business school, the Anderson School of Management, privatized in 2012. The school chose to forego $8 million a year in state funds in order to gain the flexibility to raise tuition, spurn salary caps, and spurn limitations on fundraising, partnerships, and admissions protocols, all of which compromised its competitiveness with Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 396

Categorization

• SHARE: The Haas School having one development/alumni staffer per three faculty is a striking datapoint for anyone tracking academic administration bloat.