[kelseydh]

The biggest problem I see emerging with Academia is the rise of administrative spending. Per-student administrative spending relative to academic spending in universities has exploded. Those in charge of University budgets are grossly expanding tuition and sinking the money into unnecessary infrastructure upgrades and expansions to the university administrative bureaucracy, with very little of it focusing on quality of education.

[dstyrb]

In Germany, for every full time employed researcher at universities, there are 2 full time administrators... And the researchers still do all their own paperwork for grants, travel, etc.