I’ve worked in administration at multiple universities and have a masters degree in education so I am well aware of how these institutions function on the insid

I’ve worked in administration at multiple universities and have a masters degree in education so I am well aware of how these institutions function on the inside. It is an indisputable fact that university administrations have become very bloated over time. This is just one example of one department that would not have existed 10-20 years ago, but it now commands a multi million dollar budget at just one campus of a large public university that has multiple campuses throughout the state. You can describe the merits of a DEI office and we can debate whether universities were much worse off when they didn’t exist, but the fact is they add cost. Like all the other offices. Many of which are full of the university version of “resters and vesters” riding out their time to eventually collect their retirements. I went into university administration inspired by the vision of the California master plan of higher education and the people like Clark Kerr who helped build that vision. But it quickly became clear that the culture within university administration today is sadly lacking any of that former vision and seems focused on growing department budgets while producing the most minimal amount of work.