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by 706f6f70 2781 days ago
Unfortunately those bureaucrats are actually doing work. A good chunk of it is around Title IX since the consequences were so severe if you didn't have enough bureaucrats to handle the extra-judicial pseudo-tribunals to handle any sex-related allegations. Jump forward to the woke 2018s and now you need even more bureaucrats because all of a sudden each group needs a bureaucrat from it's own race/gender/religion/disability. And now we need even more processes because #metoo and #believethesurvivors and how do you handle a scenario like Mattress Girl which is basically a Kobayashi Maru for a university? So now we also need a bigger legal department and consultants to help develop best practices when there is no clear innocence or guilt, but if you don't assume guilt it could go viral and your funding will get hit.

And then people wonder why education is more expensive despite teaching staff getting paid less and less.