I can’t find the article, but it said that over the past decade, faculty costs at public universities has been stable, but administrative costs (deans, assistants to the dean, etc) have almost tripled. In other words, non-teaching expenses at public universities are out of control. Many of those non-teaching people are “compliant” officers whose duty it is to make sure the university adheres to all of the red tape gov’t has put in the way of educating students.
AKA political officers.