[elgar1212]

This article comes off as a little too polemical. Is there administrative excess in academia? Yes. But the author seems to have an underlying motive

> George Leef, the director of research at the Center for Higher Education Policy, has described the funding of higher education as “a boondoggle” that robs taxpayers, and Shaw has demanded that the legislature “starve the beast.”[0] (George Leef is director of editorial content for the site linked)

In this case, it seems like the underlying motive is to undermine trust in higher education in order to increase support for broader budget cuts.

As much as I dislike university presidents, provosts, etc, the author of that article simply brings up a bunch of grievances and offers no clear indication of a solution

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/state-for-sale