Am I the only one think that the root cause is because lots of upper management treats universities as state owned business. Universities’ management always try to expand and lure more students. They don’t care if their students’ career and their future. Even a factory owner who don’t care about their products will slow down the production if the sale doesn’t go well. University should not allow to accept more students if certain percentage of their graduated students cannot find a jobs.
I just feel heart broken to see passionate talents get mistreated every year again and again.
That’s a great point and that I can’t believe I forgot to mention! To add to that, universities themselves use research as a cash cow (they take a large share of nearly every research grant of a faculty member) and as a marketing tool to get more students (tuition), prestige, grants, and so on. The fact that universities market themselves at all is ridiculous.
In the US they are also usually heavily financialized and local real estate behemoths.