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the ratio is shifting dramatically toward admin side

• ams6110 8y ago
  Yes. Administrative staff, and spending on dubious things such as e-textbooks, LMS systems, online learning and IT in general is out of control.
• secabeen 8y ago
  Do you have a citation for this? The data I have shows that on a real basis, expenditures at state schools for administrative services are largely flat: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_334.10.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_334.10.a...
  • qaq 8y ago
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/21/universities-broke-cut-pointless-admin-teaching https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/21/univer... I think looking at top level figures could be problematic because we don't really know how classification was done.
    • secabeen 8y ago
      Intetresting. That's UK, which is a totally different system, but still neat.