People have cited this figure before, but I think the “10,000 administrators” without further context is misleading. The number is 15,000 anyway if you look at Wikipedia.

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.