"We are relatively efficient compared to other name-brand universities. But when you compare us to business organizations of comparable size we really don't look too good."[Source]Speech delivered to Yale's Managerial and Professional Employees, Dec. 1 2009.
"The University is in the midst of the largest building and renovation program since its transformation during the period between the World Wars."[Source]Yale University: A Framework for Campus Planning. Cooper, Robertson & Partners Architecture, Urban Design, April 2000, "Foreward," p.ii.
Economic Crisis or Opportunity?
Yale has grown into a global corporation based on a "business organization" model that has detrimental effects on governance, research and teaching. Yale has used the context of the economic crisis to accelerate the restructuring of the graduate school by centralizing administrative control over departments, speeding-up academic research and restructuring teaching. These changes undermine the values of higher education and profoundly affect the lives of graduate employees.
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