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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest rise in college costs is due to bloated administration. I'm a professor, and over the last twenty years, I have seen [b]an exponential increase in the number of vice-provosts, vice-deans, offices of XYZ, etc.[/b] Many of these administrators, especially at the senior level, are paid as if they were corporate executives, with salaries hovering around 7-figures at some universities (and not necessarily the best ones, either).
This all comes unfortunately at the expense of full-time faculty. To be sure, full-time faculty are expensive, but they are paid far, far less than what people imagine. Most faculty in the humanities and social sciences earn well under 6-figures. In the hard sciences, they earn a bit more, but a fraction of what upper-level administrators earn and certainly less than what they'd earn in private industry. 
This means that students get the short end of the stick. The pay high tuition for being taught by adjuncts, who have no job security and work for less than $5000 per class. [/quote]

Another professor here and I completely agree. (I am non-tenure track but a full-time instructor and make $65k for 9 months of work/year, with a PhD and years of work experience).[/quote]

I'm about 15 years removed from the university setting, but I guess I have a hard time imagining that there are enough senior-level administrators to really have a significant impact on the overall budgets. But there does seem to be a lot more academic support programs (and obviously associated costs) for students.[/quote]

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