Because there is no competition, and demand has massively outstripped supply. If you want to make money in academic management, you need to build an organizatio

Because there is no competition, and demand has massively outstripped supply. If you want to make money in academic management, you need to build an organization to manage and then justify a high salary to do so. And this is what happens. Huge staffs doing nothing but justifying the boss’ salary have appeared at universities over the past few decades.