Guest Column: Another Look at UT Productivity Report
A report on teaching productivity at the University of Texas at Austin by Richard Vedder and his colleagues at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) concludes that there is a “sharp disparity in the teaching loads for individual faculty members” at UT. Strikingly, they find that the top 20 percent of “faculty with respect to teaching loads teaches 57% of all student credit hours” while the bottom 20 percent teach “only 2% of all student credit hours.” On this basis, Dr. Vedder and his coauthors argue that substantial financial savings are available to UT by increasing the average ...
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Barbara Avila Marvin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Appreciate the analysis of the data and, moreover, revealing the greatest cost of following the CCAP's report- UT might likely move from a tier-one research university to a second tier.
Darrel Mulloy via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why are we supporting UT when they can afford to buy $billions in gold and store it?
poryorick
One has to ask, if Vedder can't even understand the most basic underpinnings of how faculty is structured at research universities, why is he being availed a microphone?
The fact that the trade-school model ideologues are getting as much coverage as they are is embarrassing.
Jeff Scroggin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Do a little research on how universities fund themselves Darrel. If there wasn't an endowment, they wouldn't exists. Private schools have them as well.
Tim Hurst via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This sounds like something the WSJ would publish. Excellent article by the Texas Tribune. Of course the WSJ piece is just the ticket the knuckle draggers in the Texas Legislature and the nutty govenor live for. Anything to dismantle one of the greatest universities not only in the country but the world.
Stuart Greenfield
good, insightful analysis. What is interesting is that an Aggie prof provided the analysis. Were UT profs too busy teaching?
Philip Diehl
An excellent critique. I say edit it to be comprehensible to the average WSJ reader and submit it as a response to Vedder's cooked analysis. Who knows? Maybe they'll publish it.
Darrel, do some homework on the endowments of the top institutions in the country and how they work then get back to us with something closer to an informed opinion.