> The short answer is: administrative bloat. That's where all the money is going. Universities employ far more non-teaching staff than ever before. A large bulk

> The short answer is: administrative bloat. That's where all the money is going. Universities employ far more non-teaching staff than ever before. A large bulk of this staff is essentially dedicated to marketing the university to prospective students, a zero-sum competition with other universities. Do you have a citation for this claim? The Ed department publishes higher-ed expenditure data, and it doesn't show "far more" administrative expense on a real per-student basis compared to 10 or 20 years ago: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_334.10.asp https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_334.10.a...