Jay Rothman, President of the UW System, makes a silly statement right out of Business School flapdoodle regarding the UW System's upcoming $60 million deficit:
...“At the end of the day, you never cut your way to success. You just can’t do that,” Rothman said....
This is one of those "Smart people know........" statements. Too bad that it does not apply in business any more than in education.
In effect, Jay defines "success" as losing money, because! Dammit, because!!
Actually, when student population goes down, the cost-of-facilities plus cost-of-professors plus cost-of-administrators goes UP on a per-student basis, Jay.
Since you cannot attract students, Jay, cutting a few campuses is "cutting your way to success," financially.
What Rothman proposes is that the UW-System should continue to rip taxpayers to support its super-sized increase in per-student costs--because that is "success."
Many of us think otherwise, pal.
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