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The admin bloat ought to be cut in order to qualify for federal student loans.

I'm always baffled how much tuition was at my public university, yet teacher and TA salaries are so low. It's like everything except academics attached itself to drain money from students

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The more effective and quicker and cheaper solution is to get rid of taxpayer funded student loans. The bloat will disappear immediately.

Indeed, much of the recently new administrative office space at my university was dedicated to workers tasked with securing funding. I imagine some combination of grant writing, lobbying, and compliance work?

Or just cap them?

Funded with bloats caused by student loans, many ex-politicians find their job as college administrators.

Cut that lifeline. Then it will revert back to the usual alumni fundraiser cycles for new teaching buildings.

If the top executives of the university aren't making 10s of millions of dollars, then it can't be a very good university. We should pay them more, much more, as its the only way to improve post-secondary education.

There should only be a single tenured faculty position and every one else is an adjunct or post-doc who gets paid $500 to teach a course. These adjuncts and post-docs have to work very hard for decades for a chance to be considered on the list to replace the tenured prof when they retire. Think the money that can then be directed to the university president and all the acclaim and prestige that high salary will give to institution. This is the only way forward.

that works for companies too! Imagine how much better run they are now than in the '60s when CEOs only got 12x worker salaries.

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