By Jon Marcus
New England Center for Investigative Reporting - 02/06/2014
The number of non-academic administrative and professional employees
at U.S. colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25
years, vastly outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty,
according to an analysis of federal figures.
The disproportionate
increase in the number of university staffers who neither teach nor
conduct research has continued unabated in more recent years, and slowed
only slightly since the start of the economic downturn, during which
time colleges and universities have contended that a dearth of resources
forced them to sharply raise tuition.
In all, from 1987 until
2011-12—the most recent academic year for which comparable figures are
available—universities and colleges collectively added 517,636
administrators and professional employees, or an average of 87 every
working day, according to the analysis of federal figures, by the New
England Center for Investigative Reporting in collaboration with the
nonprofit, nonpartisan social-science research group the American Institutes for Research.
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