WaPo: Pomono College since 1990, # of students +17%, # of administrators +454%
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Anonymous
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# of tenured faculty -3%. Wow. These ritzy SLACs sound like graft pits.
link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/23/save-colleges-chatbots-administrators-satire/ |
Anonymous
| Christ a'mighty. Wonder how much of that is DEI nonsense. |
Anonymous
| Links to firewall protected articles are singularly unhelpful |
Anonymous
I guarantee that the numbers were a problem before DEI initiatives during the last 4 years. There are a lot of admins because of the growth in concierge services, legal requirements and student support services (tutoring, mental health, etc.) |
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Anonymous
| The level of hand-holding parents expect has also changed a bit. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
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It's interesting that OP is picking on "Pomono" and LACs. According to that tweet, Pomona has a student-to-administrator ratio of about 1:6. That's hardly extraordinary. If anything, Pomona is behind the trend.
Yale, Harvard, Duke, Cal Tech, and UCSD's student-to-administrator ratio is about 1:1. UVA's is 1:3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulweinstein/2023/08/28/administrative-bloat-at-us-colleges-is-skyrocketing/?sh=1da702c041d2 https://www.thecollegefix.com/there-is-one-administrator-for-every-three-undergrads-at-uva-analysis/ |
Anonymous
The Post column linked in the OP is by an economics professor at Pomona, which is why Pomona is held up as the example. |
Anonymous
What about these schools? "Some schools have non-faculty to student ratios that are particularly egregious. For example three universities, the California Institute of Technology, Duke University, and the University of California at San Diego actually have more non-faculty employees on campus than students." "The ratio of non-faculty to faculty is also alarming. At Johns Hopkins University, where I direct two graduate programs, there are 7.5 more non-faculty than faculty. These numbers are even worse at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which had almost nine times more non-faculty employees than faculty, followed by Caltech at eight times." (https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulweinstein/2023/08/28/administrative-bloat-at-us-colleges-is-skyrocketing/?sh=1f10b01241d2) |
Anonymous
| Tech schools have a lot of equipment to maintain and need non-teaching employees to do that. |
Anonymous
Pomono is a SLAC. |
Anonymous
If you try hard enough, you could probably blame everything on DEI
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Anonymous
| It's not DEI. |