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Bloat increasing is natural for any growing bureaucracy and the UC system is certainly growing. The article cites enrollment has grown by 77,000 students over the last 15 years. That works out to almost a 50% growth rate (although it was a longer time period than the admin growth rate used). So a 60% growth in middle managers doesn't seem completely unreasonable. I am sure there is plenty of waste there, but once again it isn't nearly enough to explain the type of tuition increases that have happened over recent decades.