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Our friend Daniel Bennett from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity has published in Forbes an insightful piece linking administrative bloat to the vertiginous and seemingly unstoppable rise of tuition costs. One line particularly stands out: "If the employment trends of the last decade are sustained, then administrative employees will outnumber instructors at four-year colleges by 2014."
We could not agree more with Bennett's call "for higher education to go on a diet." In Asking Questions, Getting Answers -- the guide we send to boards across the country -- we impress upon trustees the importance of keeping costs under control by "reducing administrative staff" and by not "simply rubberstamping administration proposals." It is worth stating the obvious: the focus of a university is education and budgets should reflect that.
Posted by David Azerrad on July 17, 2009 at July 17, 2009 03:45 PM
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