Seems reasonable. I know when I write a check for tuition, it is for the quality of the teachers, not the administrators.
http://thescholarpreneur.com/not-adjunct-administrators-instead-adjunct-instructors-makes-far-sense/
Most of the growth of university costs comes from administrative bloat. Non-faculty staff has grown at more than twice the rate of instructors – you know, the people who are the ostensible reason a university exists. As tenured professors retire, administrators kill those tenure lines and replace them permanently with part timers. Administrators do this so they can gorge on a higher salary while demanding more from the refugee ration-packet salary of academics. Think I am not being generous? Some administrators earn $300,000 a year to fundraise for new football stadium skyboxes. Vice Presidents at the University of Maryland saw their salaries increase by 50 percent between 1998 and 2003, as faculty positions were slashed. All the while adjuncts try to get by with the help of Medicaid or food stamps.
One way that we can rescue ourselves from this campus police state and save university budgets for professors is by making the employment situation of administrators like that of adjunct instructors. Make them fireable at will. Replace salaried employees with low-paid “adjunct administrators” to handle routine functions.
The corporate world does it all the time. They call it outsourcing. Most office work can be done through temp agencies or staffers to handle routine functions. There is no reason that this function can’t work in higher education.
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