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The growth of managers, deans, and administrators relative to teaching and other real work.
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administrative bloat
The growth of managers, deans, and administrators relative to teaching and other real work.
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Jiang says UCSD-style university bloat is rent-seeking: senior management, deans, administrators, and managers surge while teaching investment falls.
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"Why? Because he's trying to protect his job. He's trying to look good. He's trying to explain why I'm the leader, because I protect..."
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"teaching has gone down the blue okay but look at this the red is administration so over the past from 1980 to today over..."
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"...who do administration, 1782. So in every federal bureaucracy, you have bloat. You have managers who do nothing, and you have very few people..."
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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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