Exactly, as someone who was non-teaching research faculty (not at Stanford), I can say there are lots of people in research institutions who don't teach. That's

Exactly, as someone who was non-teaching research faculty (not at Stanford), I can say there are lots of people in research institutions who don't teach. That's a different issue than the real issue of growth of the number of administrative staff. It isn't useful to lump all "non-teaching employees" as a group.