That said University's don't exactly make an external product to sell, so some money would need to flow inwards from grants or otherwise for salaries and capital expenditure.
That said University's don't exactly make an external product to sell, so some money would need to flow inwards from grants or otherwise for salaries and capital expenditure.
> Make the business students hash out contracts with vendors
A second semester senior without a job lined up negotiating a seven figure contract... what could go wrong?
> IT students handle the networking
This is already a thing at most colleges.
> mechanical engineers the boilers
Might be possible, but could also be a disaster.
> hospitality management majors dorm maintenance
Students already do work in dorms at front desks and so on. Business majors aren't qualified to do plumbing, electrical, etc.
Students who are qualified to do plumbing and electrical are probably better off selling that labor on the open market.
At the end of the day, the other basic problem is that at most colleges, most college students who need work can get better-paying work than the sort of work that's available on campus. Why work in Uni IT over the summer if you can get an internship literally anywhere else that probably pays better and could become a full time job?
Even teenagers are perfectly capable of most administrative tasks. People rise to the challange, if the environment is right
Why would I spend so much time educating these kids if I thought its okay that we blow that all up literally?
I think the point is not that people don’t rise to challenges, but that the ones who do graduate quickly thereafter. I can turn an 18 year old into a competent roboticist in 4 years, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t completely lost and making very costly mistakes for a good portion of that time.
Anyone who has operated in a student-run organization will tell you that when you're doing anything complicated (like managing a college IT department), the ~4-year limit on institutional memory is a serious issue, especially when it involves people who mostly don't have the experience to be proactive about documentation (and, I should note, institutional documentation is not an easy problem for organizations filled with seasoned professionals).
Both soldiers and drivers can be alone for hours and sometimes have to make life-or-death decisions during that time.
Students are students. Their job is to be students, not administrators or full time workers. That's why things run and maintained by students typically don't have the follow through and professionalism of people who are paid to do it.
We have this. They’re called grad students and if they hang around long enough we call them professors.