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The Staggering Administrative Bloat of Universities
This chart is from a recent state audit report of Janet Napolitano's office at the University of California, an audit I already wrote about here.
Obviously Napolitano's office is particularly bad as compared to peers, but she has 1667 staff and spends over a half billion (billion with a B) just on the office of the President! This is not in any way shape or form the total administrative size of the system - each university has its own administrative staff, for example. This is just her central office. This is a staggering number. It equates to every student in the system paying over $2500 a year just for the central headquarters staff that they will never see, this is before the first dollar is spent on their individual campus -- or God forbid -- on teaching or academics. To my mind this is way more of a scandal than her hiding a money reserve in various accounts.
This begins to get at a conflict I keep expecting to happen, but doesn't. Time and time again, particularly in places like California, we find examples where agencies that are supposed to be serving the public are in fact diverting much of their resources to maintain the staffing levels, salaries, and rich benefits and pensions of their employees.
The Staggering Administrative Bloat of Universities | Coyote Blog
This chart is from a recent state audit report of Janet Napolitano's office at the University of California, an audit I already wrote about here.
Obviously Napolitano's office is particularly bad as compared to peers, but she has 1667 staff and spends over a half billion (billion with a B) just on the office of the President! This is not in any way shape or form the total administrative size of the system - each university has its own administrative staff, for example. This is just her central office. This is a staggering number. It equates to every student in the system paying over $2500 a year just for the central headquarters staff that they will never see, this is before the first dollar is spent on their individual campus -- or God forbid -- on teaching or academics. To my mind this is way more of a scandal than her hiding a money reserve in various accounts.
This begins to get at a conflict I keep expecting to happen, but doesn't. Time and time again, particularly in places like California, we find examples where agencies that are supposed to be serving the public are in fact diverting much of their resources to maintain the staffing levels, salaries, and rich benefits and pensions of their employees.
The Staggering Administrative Bloat of Universities | Coyote Blog
