Previous studies are extended to show a 24-year history of runaway growth in Management personnel throughout the University of California. The newest data also let us detail the location of those supervisory positions on each campus and within each budget category.
In Section I, “The Data”, we first look at the summary data that shows a 308% growth in Management personnel while total employment grew by only 62%. Then, more detailed data show that broad classification of Management positions broken down into major sub-categories – Executives, Senior Professionals, and “Middle Management” – as well as separated into the Health Sciences and the General Campus sectors of the University. Finally, we can look at individual campuses and locate the employment statistics according to the Functional categories – Instruction, Research, Student Services, Institutional Support, etc. – that provide the budget for those positions. This lets us see where responsibility for the apparent excess of Management may be laid: 19% at the Faculty in the academic Departments, 14% at the Deans of the Schools and Colleges, and 67% at the upper Administrators on the campuses.
In Section II, “Past Questions and Answers”, we note previous attempts to get the systemwide administrators of the University to pay attention to this data and to explain why this apparent bloat is not a huge waste of resources – estimated as costing around $1 Billion per year. Their latest ploy is to redefine the issue in question as growth of “administration” rather than growth of “management”; and then they can gather data to show that there is no bloat at all.
In Section III, “New Opportunities for Investigation”, we suggest how this new data may be used constructively.