国立大学独立行政法人化の諸問題

文献紹介：The Decline of Education 2

by Donald E. Simanek, 1995
北村正直氏 の紹介文献
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/decline2.htm

"We lost control of the situation when (back in the 60s or thereabouts) we accepted (or at least went along with) the notion that students were 'customers' and we were dispensing a 'product'. Schools tried to tailor the curriculum to student's perceptions of their needs (and desires). The curriculum became a smorgasbord, from which students could pick and choose the tastiest morsels, and it included a lot of 'junk food' with no intellectual nutrition. At some schools students prepared course and faculty rating guides that were circulated or sold. Courses were created to pander to special interest groups...."

"During these decades of decline we saw a proliferation of administrators when the real need was more faculty. All these overpaid clerks did was make more work for faculty, asking for progress reports, answers to questionnaires, forms in quintuplicate for even the smallest things. They created more levels of bureaucracy as an obstacle course for any upward-flowing ideas, and as an effective insulator to shield top people from the gruesome reality of life in the classroom trenches. Administrators' primary mandate seemed to be "Proliferate thine own kind." We also saw the spawning of studies, conferences, clinics, task forces, mission plans, and outcome assesments. None of these had any positive impact...."