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June 11, 2011University Administrators Will Outnumber College Faculty by 2014; It's Already A Reality at UM-FlintAccording to Malcom Harris writing in n+1:Posted by Jim Zellmer at June 11, 2011 5:47 AM Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas Comments
The question is not whether someone is labeled an administrator but whether the job they do actually contributes to the mission and whether their compensation is fair compared to those doing the direct work. The numbers alone do not count. As a rule of thumb, I have heard, for every soldier on the front lines, there are ten others supporting him. Do these ten others also constitute unnecessary overhead? On the other hand, many people are getting work done, not because of administrators, but in spite of them. So, here, it's not the number of administrators but their incompetence that is the issue. Posted by: Larry winkler at June 12, 2011 11:52 AMPost a comment
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