[jankins]

This seems like a leap. Admin has increased 45% in the same time faculty has increased 56%. And the timeframe is 20 years. Is there too much bureaucracy? I don’t know. But I don’t think this article is enough to say so. The faculty quotes don’t offer any concrete information, unless you’ve already decided what you’re going to believe, I guess.

[quacked]

I definitely have already decided what I'm going to believe, and I read this article as confirming my prior beliefs. But it's not just universities--government agencies and large corporations (both of which I've worked at and with) both seem to fall into the practice of "defending a huge pipeline of cash flow and allowing the properly-credentialed to siphon off larger amounts". It's not just the increase in administration that's lead to this; I would say that the increase in administration is actually a symptom of this.