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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In this thread, a group of people who have no idea how colleges and universities operate. Colleges are complex organizations. Running a residential college is akin to running a small city - those 6500 administrators you site at Princeton - they help keep the lights on, students housed and feed, curriculum certified, research evaluated, data measured, funds raised, and bills paid. If you really want to know, read Power’s “Organization and Administration in Higher Ed.”[/quote]

It’s just like healthcare and hospitals specifically. The two industries with administrator bloat (more administrators than doctors and nurses - now 8:1 ratio). You know what both have in common - massive government subsidies that lead to lifelong administrator employment. And look at the 990s, colleges and hospitals mostly have 100+ people making over $500k per year. Columbia Presbyterian in NYC has over 150 non MDs making $1m or more a year.

And hospitals and colleges are the two industries with massive cost growth that far exceeds inflation durably every year since 1980.

Both are industrial complexes fed by no cost hiring decisions fueled by subsidies. [/quote]

It's because they can be sued or PR-killed for screwing up in the areas where they now have specific departments to manage it. Cheaper to do it right on the front end.[/quote]

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