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And this is one of many reasons that Higher Ed is sliding down the hill to irrelevancy

 Yale University’s administrative staff to student ratio is now 1:1.  Yep, there is one professional staff member for every student.  

Perhaps part of that can be blamed on the government.  The more they pile on regulations, the more staff are needed to handle the reporting.

But I have a sneaking suspicion that the administrative bloat is not among the staff who actually keep the university running.

If one gives a quick glance through higher ed hiring boards, jobs like diversity jobs–which are higher level administration positions, are pretty common.  Because higher ed loves lip service.

I know of one small university with close to twenty higher level administrators (Assistant/Associate Provosts and Assistant/Associate VPs)–all earning more than $100,000/year for a student body of less than 3,000 and a yearly deficit for almost a decade of around $10M/year.  Gee, wonder how that deficit happened?

In many cases (there are exceptions), higher ed would prefer to ‘invest’ in managers rather that doers or invest in infrastructure that would actually have a direct benefit to their students.

And faculty are running rampant creating their socialist drones rather than thinking humans.  Or are trying to normalize deviance.

What they need are administrators with the balls to actually look at what’s being taught and fire the folks that need firing.

It’s a shame.

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6 responses to “And this is one of many reasons that Higher Ed is sliding down the hill to irrelevancy”

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    And yet, no one can figure out why tuition is so high. Strange

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    Brian-That's another piece of the puzzle. Tuition generally is raised between 4-5% a year. It's because of the federal takeover of student financial aid. To give some perspective, it's rare that this money goes to regular staff salaries–there are no cost of living raises and in smaller schools, 1% every two years is considered to be generous.

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    Dear Chick,,you must be a graduate. Apparently you don't see the relationship between the students versus staff as a reason for skyrocketing tuition.Let me Help Yeww..Imagine a society that has provisions for old people.Imagine that being paid for by the People who work.What happens when the number of people who get a check because they need it is equal to the people who work?

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    And yet, no one can figure out why tuition is so high. Strange

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    Brian-That's another piece of the puzzle. Tuition generally is raised between 4-5% a year. It's because of the federal takeover of student financial aid. To give some perspective, it's rare that this money goes to regular staff salaries–there are no cost of living raises and in smaller schools, 1% every two years is considered to be generous.

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    Dear Chick,,you must be a graduate. Apparently you don't see the relationship between the students versus staff as a reason for skyrocketing tuition.Let me Help Yeww..Imagine a society that has provisions for old people.Imagine that being paid for by the People who work.What happens when the number of people who get a check because they need it is equal to the people who work?

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