The Mid-Sized State University

As the higher education crisis grows worse I see more clearly the characteristics of the mid-sized state university.

• Wish for respect
• Lack of respect
• Imitation of perceived grand characteristics of the grand state university
• Long mission statement marking out all territory that might be useful in the future
• Tolerance of salary inequity justified by a vague concept of market value
• Insistence to have what real universities have: sports at high level, research, terminal degrees, highly paid administrators
• Budgets out of control
• Reduction of the institutional mission to one item: survival