Only 300?
EVERY government organization seeks first to increase the size of its staff.
I saw the other day that the federal government now has over 22 MILLION employees.
Having worked in higher education for thirty years that is par for the course. Administrative positions are numerous and expanding. They don’t fire a screw up they just kick them to a new position.
My wife now works in higher ed and they have a grant writer who has been on the payroll for nearly a year and has yet to write the first grant request. Her last position was phased out by budget constraints and being friends with the college president resulted in this new position. Keep in mind they contract out their grant writing to a company that specializes in writing only higher ed grants. There is immense waste in higher education and 99% of it is in the administrative and faculty positions, most staff positions have been cut into the bone.