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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest factor is price. Both university administration and parents/students are responsible for this. Administration because they keep hiring more administrators at salaries higher than professors ("administrative bloat"). Parents/students because they choose colleges based upon things like how nice a dorm is, the availability of fancy food. Finally--and this is controversial, I understand--the shockingly high numbers of students with learning disabilities that require accommodations, additional staffing, and space (because the kids have to take their tests somewhere--so these offices need to be larger and larger).
FWIW, faculty are not paid well in general, and the cost of adjuncts is cheap. Universities should implement mandatory retirement at 72 (five years past the recommended 67), IMHO. Lots of old, expensive faculty hanging around.
-College Professor[/quote]

The administrative bloat is real, and enormous.  No one wants to hear about it. Most colleges could get rid of half their (likely remote and likely DEI) staff. DP here.  [/quote]

I love the way DEI is the bogeyman.

:roll:

Seriously, stop with it.[/quote]

I also think DEI needs to be cut. Drastically. [/quote]
Agree. I'm a very liberal, progressive Democrat who has never voted for a Republican, and I'm a professor. Unfortunately, DEI offices often replicate what is already being done by deans' offices and multi-culture student centers. Universities have DEI offices in order to seem up-to-date with the latest liberal political demands, but the DEI staff I've worked with, although very nice, seem like window dressing. Students don't go to see them for anything, faculty rarely consult them. Because every university wants a DEI person, DEI people are in high demand so universities take whom they can get. Because they are typically not academics themselves, however, they don't understand the university as a faculty member (deans are, OTOH, usually professors who have agreed to take on administrative duties); at best, they understand the university through the lens of a student. Look at how the Hamline University DEI officer handled their fiasco. 
To be sure, I'm not saying that some universities could use a great DEI office, but I have yet to come across one that is a true value-added.[/quote]

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