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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/06/administrative-bloat-campus-academia-shrinks-students-suffer/

I know this is a bit of an old article, but it's interesting nevertheless. My daughter graduated today and I was struck by two things. One, how many "deans" there are. You have the dean of academic affairs, dean of student affairs, dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences, dean of college of business, and so on and so forth...I think those always existed....but now you've also got "Assistant Dean of Retention and Student Success" "Assistant Dean of Diversity Affairs" "Associate Dean of The College of Arts and Sciences" (x2) "Assistant Dean of Student Affairs - College of Arts and Sciences", "Director of Student Affairs - College of Arts and Sciences" and then repeat for every other college in the university (college of engineering, business, health sciences, etc). It is a LOT and I can very much understand the data that it is this administrative bloat that is at least partly to blame for the rise in tuition costs. Are these administrators really necessary?

I also found out that many of her classmates are planning to enter M.Ed programs for things like "higher education administration" "Student Affairs Administration" and so on and so forth. I'm an old fogey, but I have no recollection of these programs existing (at least not with such popularity) when I was graduating. [/quote]

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