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Administrative spending and the importance of priorities
According to the Houston Chronicle, the budget for highly paid administrators at the University of Texas at Austin rose nearly 40 percent between 2004 and 2008. These pay raises were accompanied by the steep tuition hikes common in higher education today -- UT's per-semester tuition and fees rose 57 percent between 2003 and 2008. These UT numbers are one small part of a larger story: the increasing gulf between administrative and instructional costs on campuses across the country. In ACTA's state report cards profiling Georgia and Missouri, for example, we found that the increase in administrative spending far outpaced the increase in spending on instruction. This points to a need for trustees to engage in some bold reform by controlling the administrative budget and refocusing on the core mission of the university: teaching and learning.
Posted by Sandra E. Czelusniak on February 17, 2009 at February 17, 2009 03:24 PM
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