Posted on 06/02/2018 2:33:27 PM PDT by ransomnote
There is no doubt that the human costs of this rise are severe: Some 44 million Americans currently carry nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the delinquency rate is 11 percent.
There are various reasons for surging costs, but the primary one is the remarkable expansion of university administration in recent decades. As Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, wrote in the New York Times a few years ago:
“According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.
Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase.”
Universities are large and require administrators to function, of course. The problem is there seems to be no end to the expansion. This point was recently illustrated by Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan-Flint.
Perry, who also is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, used the University of Michigan as an example to highlight the rise of “diversicrats” (diversity bureaucrats) on today’s campuses. The numbers are astonishing.
1. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of nearly 100 (93) full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice-provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts, and coordinators.
2. More than one-quarter (26) of these “diversicrats” earn annual salaries of more than $100,000, and the total payroll for this small army is $8.4 million. When you add to cash salaries an estimated 32.45% for UM’s very generous fringe benefit package for the average employee in this group (retirement, health care, dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability, paid leave, paid vacation, social security, unemployment insurance, Medicare, etc.) the total employee compensation for this group tops $11 million per year. And of course that doesn’t count the cost of office space, telephones, computers and printers, printing, postage, programs, training, or travel expenses.
Ho Lee Phouck! Guess I picked the wrong career. But, it’s all over now anyway. LOL! YIKES! Money well wasted.
That is 100 people whose sole taxpayer/student funded mission in life is to conduct racism against whites. Especially white males.
what the hell do these people do all day????
Not everyone in a collectivist system is poor. Some are more equal.
Their REAL job is ‘tutoring’ Wolverine athletes. Someone’s got to keep them eligible.
I suppose this is the type of job a graduate of “womyn’s studies” would get.
Sometime wish I could be a lying scum sucking piece of filth such as these diversity people. It would be so easy. But I have two problems with doing so: (1) I like to look myself in the mirror in the morning. Don’t always like what I see but at least know I never lie and have never used violence except in self defense; and (2) at some point we will all have to face God.
No lie...every one of these “jobs” could be rolled into one.
Diversity University, the Brain Factory at Ann Arbor.
What is health equity? Everyone gets the same school insurance?
They search the campus relentlessly for innocent humor and examples of cross-racial harmony, so they can stamp them out.
Cut off the government funding to these alleged universities, and see fiscal sanity restored.
Job Description: Spy on white people to make sure they don’t offend anyone by saying things like: Those storm clouds sure are black, must be gonna rain soon. Or, yes I will have the white gravy with my biscuit.
This has become insane. Chief Diversity Officer makes almost $400K, are you kidding me? Talk about reparations, they’re with us every day.
They are obviously missing several War Against Patriarchy staff members with the four highest-paid Borg being men. And the womyn are putting up with that?
Against white, male, straight students, faculty; and what few remaining white, straight,male administrators are left.
Yeah, how is that fair? ;-)
Yup. Sometimes it sucks to have a conscience huh?
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