Universities certainly seem to employ a lot more people outside of the businesses of education and research than they used to. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I d

Universities certainly seem to employ a lot more people outside of the businesses of education and research than they used to. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think college used to have "diversity programs coordinators," "counseling and psychological services," and a paid intramural sports infrastructure, to say nothing of steadily larger dorm rooms and increasingly common private bathrooms. My parents teach at a small liberal arts school, and they say that landscaping has skyrocketed out of nowhere into a pretty expensive part of their budget. They also say that they are under constant pressure to hire more "diversity professionals" from regulatory bodies. A university is a meal ticket for a lot of people, not necessarily just professors, and once some people find a meal ticket, especially one as intertwined with the public sector as higher education, good luck getting them out.