Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable

As someone who s been involved in legal matters pertaining to higher education since the beginning of my career 55 years ago, I ve had a chance to observe this phenomenon, and have naturally wondered at the cause. The short answer that I ve come up with can be summarized in two words: administrative bloat. At Yale University, for instance, there are now as many administrative staff as undergraduates. Even among university academics, there seems to be far more resources dedicated to busywork. Every dean, it seems, has a deputy dean; with deputy deans sometimes having several assistant deputy deans. Many of these positions come with secretaries and other forms of administrative support.  

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