Research Blog #2: Scouting the Territory

1.  I am still focusing my paper on how privatization has changed the way universities are going about staffing, but I am more focusing on the fact that there are more administrative positions with higher salaries.  Also, this has a negative impact on faculty positions and their wages.  I also am thinking of trying to incorporate how this all has led to higher tuition for students. 

2.  A few google searches that I did that helped me find some information about this topic were "administrators at universities" and "are there more administrative positions at universities not?"  I found a lot of articles written about this topic and even some books.

3.  A bunch of articles come up from a search on google scholar.  Many seem to talk about the route I am thinking about taking this paper and directly correlate the rise in administrators to the rise in for-profit universities.  Also, Professor Goeller sent me a book title from amazon that I am going to look into titled The Fall of The Faculty.

4.  The issues that revolve around this topic is the face that privatization has negatively affected the faculty at universities as well as the students.  From less faculty positions with lower wages, to students having to pay more because of this option the schools are taking.

5.  The first link I am posting here is a search a did and produced a book.  This book seems like it is going to be something I look into because it is all about the rise of for-profit universities.   http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=B0UGX-10hrcC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=rise+in+administrators+at+universities&ots=3iwdmvPWzB&sig=WamBmWc3n1KKs_enIWbZdtvQjDk#v=onepage&q=rise%20in%20administrators%20at%20universities&f=false 

The second link I am posting here is an article from Inside Higher Ed which will be helpful because it tells about new processes that some universities are doing to higher adjuncts.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/21/colleges-assign-adjunct-hiring-third-party

6.  I seem to be able to find a lot of information supporting both sides of this argument.  Some people are saying how the hiring of adjuncts and administrators is a good thing, where others are taking the same stance on this issue that I am.