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The cost of higher education has been exploding. We all know it. It is ravaging students with debt and literally, causing students to drop out, and is preventing students, especially from lower socio-economic backgrounds, from even attending college. The reason for the cost increases are many, but one is a completely controllable phenomenon, self-inflicted by colleges that must be addressed--the hiring of armies of higher education administrators and staffers. Administration plays a vital role in higher education, but while faculty salaries are stagnant, administrative salaries are skyrocketing, and while the student-to-faculty ratio has stayed pretty constant, the student-to-administrator ratio is up dramatically, while over half the faculty on college campuses are now adjuncts to save money, administrative personnel are still being hired into newly created full-time positions. I bring a dual perspective to the podcast having worked as an Academic Administrator and as a Faculty member. This problem doesn't just impact cost, but it impacts the entire experience and perception of higher education by society at large. If we are not careful, higher education as we know it could literally sink itself to bankruptcy in the bureaucracy it is creating. We discuss this important problem.
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