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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an alum who donated and volunteered for decades, agree way too much faculty and staff. News mentions Duke at 48,000 employees is second largest private employer and sure a large part of that base is medical and hospital employees. The growth in development staff, DEI, non-teaching faculty is staggering and has to be cut back and this is not unique to Duke as other elite universities are facing similar fiscal problems. Also  when a school like Duke and the Ivies rejects active donating grads’ kids don’t expect checks to continue. Time for these schools to operate more like a business.

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48,000 employees for a school with 11,000 students is absolutely insane.

No sympathy.[/quote]

Most of those are health system employees who have nothing to do with the number of students. It’s insane to me that you don’t understand that.[/quote]

Nice try. A quick Google search reveals that there are approximately 26,000 employees in the Duke health care system. That leaves 22,000 administrators and factulty for 11,000 students. Still an insane number.[/quote]

Google harder. There are 9,202 campus employees. The rest are affiliated with the health system in some way.

https://facts.duke.edu/
(Scroll about halfway down.)[/quote]

Yup. And 17k+ total students. Not 11,000. Not sure why we are even dignifying these morons with a response. But again, they are getting their panties in a bunch over made up "facts." But I'm sure that rather than saying "oops, you're right, my bad" they will make up some other fact or get really defensive or blame Hunter Biden or transsexuals or migrants or whatever else the flavor of the day at Fox News is.[/quote]

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