Per recent episode of Bill Maher, Stanford university has over 10000 administrators. Why is higher education so expensive in the US… bloated bureaucracy and fancy buildings which would not happen if the federal government was backing student loans.
There are, of course, administrators among the administrative faculty, but far fewer than it appears.
The reason it’s misleading is that it’s being portrayed as though there are 10,000 diversity, equity, and inclusion support group staff or payroll checkers or some other nonsense when the fact of the matter is that these figures include staff doing things like running federal research grant projects, maintaining facilities, working at university hospitals, and numerous other activities.
If you think 10,000 is a lot, wait until you see Ohio State University’s 27,000 administrative staff.
I don’t know if I’ve seen that dataset though.
It really would be helpful if these things were broken down and better understood amongst the general population. Costs have gone up but I'd be hesitant (which is a reversal from my previous understanding) to blame that solely on "administrators".