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How could this: > Stanford now has more than 10,000 administrators who oversee the 7,761 undergraduate and 9,565 graduate students—almost enough for each stude
by 908B64B197 4y ago
How could this:
> Stanford now has more than 10,000 administrators who oversee the 7,761 undergraduate and 9,565 graduate students—almost enough for each student to have their own personal butler. (There are about 2,290 faculty members.) These bureaucrats make up an increasingly powerful segment of the university population, as they expand their portfolio and send the message that all conflict should be adjudicated by them. (OCS reports for the 2022–2023 school year have not yet been released.)
Lead to this:
> “I’m sitting in two-hour-long interviews on Zoom with lawyers who are trying to verbally and rhetorically trap people,” he said. “I had young kids that were 18, 19 years old who are international asking me, ‘Hey, can I talk to this attorney and tell them I drank a beer, or am I going to get my visa revoked?’ ”
I guess if you can't make it as a student there, you can always become an admin to bully those who put the work in to get admitted?
- blakesterz 4y agoWhere is that 10,000 number coming from? I don't see it on the PDF they link to, and I don't see it on the Stanford site: https://facts.stanford.edu/administration/staff/ https://facts.stanford.edu/administration/staff/ That 10k number doesn't even sound impossible, knowing what we know about large universities now, but I just wonder where it came from. Maybe I'm missing something obvious on that PDF?
- stagger87 4y agoOn the linked article. Ctrl+F -> "10,000"
- fatnoah 4y agoI assume it comes from this line: 12,336* managerial and professional staff There's a more granular breakdown here: https://irds.stanford.edu/data-findings/academic-and-non-academic-staff https://irds.stanford.edu/data-findings/academic-and-non-aca...
- WatchDog 4y agoIt's actually more than that now. Non-faculty staff have increased by about 62% since 2012, faculty increased by 16% over the same period, while students increased by less than 10%. Further breakdown: https://i.imgur.com/UCjelDs.png https://i.imgur.com/UCjelDs.png