Comment by geodel
3 years ago
I get your point. The way I see this growth of admins is side effect of giving what people wanted which is "world-class amenities, world class education, more nutrition options, more security, more healthcare, more activities, more courses, more entertainment options, more electives, more everything" . Individually every single item looks eminently reasonable and in aggregate it can give reasonable cover to universities to have admins to support all of this.
I don’t know if you have any experience in this, but in community collages in my area students and faculty alike are raising protests and threatening strikes because they are precisely not getting what they want, which is for their courses to stay open and for their teachers to remain on staff. It is my guess that the only people getting what they want with the ballooning admins are the bosses (i.e. admins them selves; and stakeholders in the educational industry who get to sell their stuff to schools, e.g. security firms).