Our genius administrators decided to eliminate graduate assistantships to save money. Graduate assistants get a tuition waiver, and the administrators thought that if we don't offer them, students will pay full tuition.
We tried to explain that applicants choose the most competitive package when deciding where to apply. If you don't offer a tuition waiver, people don't go to graduate school. Even Harvard doesn't charge for graduate studies. And we are not Harvard.
The administrators scoffed at us in loud, obnoxious ways and eliminated half of all graduate assistantships.
Then the graduate enrollment dropped off a cliff.
Now the same administrators are sending us long, desperate missives asking us why our graduate school is disappearing.
All the administrators involved in this scheme are extremely woke. This cluelessness of theirs is a result of that. They sincerely believe that human beings are blank slates and interchangeable widgets. They think they can engineer people's behavior into pleasing results. And it never works because humans are more complicated than that and have agency. But the poor darn fools never learn.
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