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What do administrative employees do at colleges and universities?
Over the last 40 years, college tuition has increased at a rate 4x the general inflation rate. Some attribute this to cuts in state funding to colleges and universities, but this is not the case according to a number of investigations, which have found that states still provide as much or more financial support to colleges as they did back then. The big difference they found was that colleges have greatly expanded the number of administrative positions over that time, which of course means that student tuition has to pay their salaries and the cost of their workspace.
So what do all these additional administrative employees do? How were colleges able to get by without them a few decades ago?
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- Anonymous5 years ago
It depends on what their field is. There are MANY such employees in MANY different fields.
For example, I am an administrator at a university museum. (I also teach in one of the university's departments.) I do the same sorts of things administrators at non-university museums do.
I have colleagues who run libraries, research centers and programs, various university projects, health care programs (my graduate alma mater has a famous medical center; just imagine how many administrative employees it has), laboratories, finances, investment and endowment, you name it. There are academic deans, food service administrators, advisory and tutoring centers with administrators -- on and on and on,.
One major reason colleges have more administrative employees now is that students expect many more amenities and services. My job existed at universities decades ago, but there are newer and more numerous jobs involving things like housing, recreational facilities, and student life that didn't exist when I was in college. And as universities expand physically -- as they grow larger -- they need more and more employees to look after the physical plant and the grounds and so forth.