Administration Quote by Bobby Knight

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining…

— Roy Romer

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

— Jack Welch

The for-profit college industry is clearly the single-heaviest subsidized business in America. More than any defense contractor or any farm operation... So many of…

— Dick Durbin

Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of…

— George Leef

With debt free college there is absolutely no incentive to rein in administrative costs when the government is foolishly pushing everyone to get a…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis…

— Rupert Murdoch

The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of…

— Don Tapscott

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

We have to get back to universities being more focused on education and more connected on what they educate students for to the jobs…

— Bill Foster

Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.

— Robert Reich

Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other,…

— Theodore Zeldin