Posted on 02/22/2024 8:56:36 AM PST by george76
If I remember correctly, at Stanford and Ivy League schools there is one administrator per student.
Does a football analyst count as an “administrator”?
What?!?!?! WAY TOO FEW ADMINISTRATORS. Need to get that ratio to 3:1 and incidentally increase fees and tuition to pay for them Why I’m sure the DIE office alone could provide a couple of hundred well paid sinecures for people of color whose sole job would be to constantly scan everything written and said on campus for things to be offended by.
The state board of regents needs to simply abolish the department of “diversity” and fire every administrator employed by it.
Then go through courses with a fine toothed comb and abolish any that are obviously just leftist indoctrination.
Though it sickens me to see this at my alma mater, I know its at least as bad if not worse elsewhere.
The whole nation’s university system has become the unemployment office for failed liberal politicians.
First, some history, then some insights. Tenured faculty were used in an administrative capacity on many campuses. For example a tenured faculty member would become a department head, and reduce the amount of teaching that they did.
Tenured faculty also headed research committees. The wrote and administered grants, as well as heading laboratories and administering such labs.
Some faculty also were responsible for running student organizations, helping lead/chaperon study-abroad programs, help students apply for prestigious scholarships, etc.
Now to the insights. First a tenured faculty person is far more expensive and difficult to fire than a pure administrative hire for most of the above functions. Part of the reason for using tenured faculty was that they were viewed by their piers as being part of the club and therefore other professor PHD’s would listen to them as opposed to a “under educated” Administrator.
Next when you count “Administrators” exactly what does that mean? Is a defensive line coach on the football team an administrator? Certainly, not faculty. How about a PhD and MD, who heads a university hospital medical lab, but doesn't teach anymore, or gave up tenure for a much higher salary?
As pointed out in the article, many universities have not had that much student growth. University educations are expensive and less in demand. Most are having problems with the financial statements. Lots are merging or downsizing or changing focus from granting degrees to increasing the certifications and online programs the staff. They are also spending a lot more staff time on fund raising and hiring professional fund raising staff, much of which is by administrative staff.
Finally, the number of state and federally funded requirements in higher education has and continues to increase dramatically each year. It doesn't matter if it is Title 9 reporting requirements, Diversity training requirements, audited reports on federal grant money, the paperwork is huge and getting worse each year. Administering federal backed loans to students require lots of paperwork.
So yes, I can understand that the number of administrative jobs in increasing rapidly. Depending on which box you put certain university employees in (staff, faculty, tenured faculty) I can easily see why it may make economic sense to hire non-faculty over promoting tenured faculty and why tenured faculty might refuse some administrative duties requiring a university to hire pure administrative staff.
In 1974 freshman classes seemed to have about 1 instructor per 50 students. ( my calculus class had 120 people in an auditorium). These were weeding courses designed to weed out the people who couldn’t learn from the textbook. I lasted 2 quarters, having come from a highs school where senior classes were 1 instructor per 15-20 students and there was a lot of interaction in the classes. I never saw an “administrator” and the only contact was a mailed notice of academic suspension. UF only cared about tuition money, textbook money, and an easy life for the staff. As Frank Zappa said, go to college for a diploma, go to the library for an education.
Harvard University employs about 1,352 full-time administrators for every 1,000 undergraduate students enrolled at the university..
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Administration bloat is a huge problem everywhere.
Administration includes custodial staff.
So what’s he waiting for?
University of Florida has 1 administrator for every 4 undergrads
You would think they could better service than a cruise ship...
I think the US Navy has more admirals than ships.
I miss Frank.
Stop giving.
No wonder it’s such a ripoff financially not to mention weird ass Marxist professors
Desantis chose a RINO to rebuild the university?
“Desantis chose a RINO to rebuild the university?”
Desantis chose a strong administrator and staunch conservative to rebuild the university.
I’m a Gator through and through. But, this is a (quite) bit overkill!
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