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Ralph and David, I don't think that anyone is arguing
against the need for administrators.  Somebody clearly needs
to look after the administrative details of universities as
organizations.

What I'm questions, and what I think others are questioning,
is exactly how many administrators are necessary to do the
job.  For example, does a university actually need a Vice
President of Student Life AND a Dean of Students, one of
which earns $90,000+ a year and the other of which earns
$70,000+?

I know that students are hard to handle these days, but
are two well-paid administrators required to oversee student
activities?  Oh, yes--both the VP and the dean have
assistants.  And each of the separate functions (Student
Life, Student Activities, etc.) have separate
administrators.

Every year we have more administrators and fewer faculty,
and I just wonder at what point we have sufficient
administrators to keep things rolling.
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