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Given a typical professor's salary, it is... difficult to imagine that this is true, at least not without fantastically bloated administrative and overhead cost
by lukev 3y ago
Given a typical professor's salary, it is... difficult to imagine that this is true, at least not without fantastically bloated administrative and overhead costs.
- CPLX 3y ago> fantastically bloated administrative and overhead costs Indeed. Go check the trends on the ratio of non-teaching staff to students at these major name colleges.
- ckrapu 3y ago“non-teaching staff” includes all the research scientists, postdoc, and techs that help make the research happen. These universities are not especially good at teaching compared to SLACs. They are exceptionally good at research.
- CPLX 3y agoThat’s not what most of these people are doing. https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2023/01/05/more-employees-than-students-at-stanford-give-each-student-a-concierge/ https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2023/01/05/more-employees-t...
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoThose people are paid for out of research grants, not tuition.