Posted on 06/02/2018 2:33:27 PM PDT by ransomnote
There is no doubt that the human costs of this rise are severe: Some 44 million Americans currently carry nearly $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, and the delinquency rate is 11 percent.
There are various reasons for surging costs, but the primary one is the remarkable expansion of university administration in recent decades. As Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado, wrote in the New York Times a few years ago:
“According to the Department of Education data, administrative positions at colleges and universities grew by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, which Bloomberg reported was 10 times the rate of growth of tenured faculty positions.
Even more strikingly, an analysis by a professor at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, found that, while the total number of full-time faculty members in the C.S.U. system grew from 11,614 to 12,019 between 1975 and 2008, the total number of administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183 — a 221 percent increase.”
Universities are large and require administrators to function, of course. The problem is there seems to be no end to the expansion. This point was recently illustrated by Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan-Flint.
Perry, who also is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, used the University of Michigan as an example to highlight the rise of “diversicrats” (diversity bureaucrats) on today’s campuses. The numbers are astonishing.
1. The University of Michigan currently employs a diversity staff of nearly 100 (93) full-time diversity administrators, officers, directors, vice-provosts, deans, consultants, specialists, investigators, managers, executive assistants, administrative assistants, analysts, and coordinators.
2. More than one-quarter (26) of these “diversicrats” earn annual salaries of more than $100,000, and the total payroll for this small army is $8.4 million. When you add to cash salaries an estimated 32.45% for UM’s very generous fringe benefit package for the average employee in this group (retirement, health care, dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability, paid leave, paid vacation, social security, unemployment insurance, Medicare, etc.) the total employee compensation for this group tops $11 million per year. And of course that doesn’t count the cost of office space, telephones, computers and printers, printing, postage, programs, training, or travel expenses.
Yeah, I guess “Solitaire” would be a decade or so old. My bad. haha
So... how diverse do you suppose the University of Michigan’s Diversity Battalion is? Does it reflect the demographics of the U.S. population at large?
That’s not enough. I would recommend people choose a different, more tolerant college.
Just not at Michigan - same at The Ohio State University, Wisconsin, etc.
Who was it who said, "Nuke 'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" ?
If they really want to correct old sins, they should put their diversity staff in charge of fundraising from their alumni. So the alumni can pay back all that white privilege.
More proof that you can’t spell SCUM without UM.
University of Atheism at Ann Arbor.
Unfortunately UM is far from alone.
Gravy train or slop troth, depending on your point of view. It looks like diversity pays well and is big business, like global warming.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and if formulated correctly can pay well.
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