2/26/2011: Rachel Bachman has a piece in the Oregonian today on UO’s athletic budget: also up 60% since 2005. 2/25/2011: UO’s top administrators love to listen to themselves tell the faculty that it’s not “us versus you” and that we are all working together to improve teaching and research at…
Posts tagged as “38% admin expense ratio claim”
2/18/2011: This is from the meeting yesterday. The report is not polished but it is comprehensive. Link here. From 2005 to 2009: Number of students up 10%Number of GTF’s up 0.1% Number of faculty down 2%Number of tenure track faculty up 4% Number of administrators up 20%
9/28/2010: President Obama that is: In a conference call with student journalists on Monday, President Obama renewed his calls for reining in college costs, saying that every institution should provide a chart showing how each tuition dollar is spent. He also questioned the need for expensive amenities. “You’re not going…
8/17/2010: We’ve reported before on the fact that UO spends 96% of the public research university average on Central Administration, versus only 63% on research. Insidehighered.com discusses several studies of the general trend: “Administrative bloat” is the cause of rising costs in American higher education, according to a report being…
7/26/2010: A commenter points us to “The Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity, and Accountability” and their online database of the federally required reports to IPEDS. Here’s one quick cut: UO’s spending per student FTE compared to Carnegie Public Research university averages, for 2008. (See below for category definitions…
9/10/2009: The Institutional Research web site at http:/ir.uoregon.edu is a clean, well lit and informative place. One curious UO Matters reader has been digging around there and reports on recent trends in administrative growth. Note that the most recent numbers are 2007, and are head counts – not dollars. Most…
9/9/2009: From the Chronicle: The cost of goods, services, pay, and benefits in higher education rose 2.3 percent for the year ending June 30—a figure that is nearly a percentage point higher than the Consumer Price Index for the same period but less than half the 5-percent rate that colleges…
8/18/2009: The North Carolina News and Observer has a story about administrative bloat in the NC college system. This decade has been good for associate vice chancellors at UNC-Chapel Hill. Their numbers have nearly doubled, from 10 to 19, and the money paid to them has more than tripled, to…
5/29/2009:A few days ago we got a knowledgeable comment on our claim that the number of senior administrators was increasing. It said we were exaggerating: “this sure looks like a one-for-one replacement, distracting us from the more serious issues of the huge growth in Associate VPs, support staff, and so…
At the furlough meeting Provost Bean told us that UO’s administrative expense ratio was 38% of peers. See his reply to the question at 50:20 in the video. This number was repeated in Greg Bolt’s RG story about the meeting. This issue matters because the admin need to have some…