> “It’s clear that the growth of university bureaucracies and administration has been a major driver of the cost of higher education growing much, much faster t

> “It’s clear that the growth of university bureaucracies and administration has been a major driver of the cost of higher education growing much, much faster than inflation. We now have about 4,500 administrators on the main campus, about three times the number of faculty, and that’s a new development over the past 20 years,” he said. This has been going on for decades at many universities. As he notes, administrative organizations are primarily expanding for their own sake, at the expense of students.