“Still, according to an annual report about myths of professor pay from the American Association of University Professors, faculty salaries are not the primary cause of higher student costs — cuts to state support and declining university endowments are to blame.
But Jenna Robinson, president of the right-leaning Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, said ‘the biggest part of the cost problem has been the absolute explosion of non-instructional employees at universities.’”
Someone needs an editor. Jenna Robinson here is agreeing with the point made in the first paragraph. It’s one that I agree with as well. We have administrators for every conceivable thing at our university, deans and deanlets of diversity and the environment and a president who makes upwards of a million dollars for doing a job that I am sure any member of his huge and also overcompensated staff could so equally as well.
mrs riverdawg tells me that, at the nearby state university where she works, in the past 20 years the ratio of non-teaching staff to teaching faculty has flipped from 2/3 to 3/2.