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"Stanford now has more than 10,000 administrators who oversee the 7,761 undergraduate and 9,565 graduate students—almost enough for each student to have their own personal butler. (There are about 2,290 faculty members.)"

There's your problem. I'm sure 8,000 of those administrators are not needed for the educational goals of Stanford. They are there for cultural reasons, i.e. social justice warriors. They have to find enough incidents to justify their huge salaries.

And we wonder why college is so expensive.

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Brian Katz's avatar

Yes, the worthless administrators must justify their existence. So they create crimes against their desired cultural norms. Insanity really.

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Michael Frankel's avatar

Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach become administrators

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Landscape Artist's avatar

Not necessarily.

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Joe Horton's avatar

…aka “grifters.”

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Joe Horton's avatar

Nasty bits of work. Perfidious Albion and all that.

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JBell's avatar

I think closer to 9900 of them are useless.

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NCmom's avatar

“Over 10,000” is actually 15,750 administrators for a total student population of 17,326 students combined undergrad and grad. That’s a whole lot of incompetence and an environment ripe for harassment in the name of justifying a paycheck. For comparison Stanford employs around 2,300 professors to educate the kids.

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

I think 100%.

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Joe Horton's avatar

You said, not I. But you will also notice that I am not disagreeing with you.

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Joe Horton's avatar

Right direction, wrong magnitude: 9990, or maybe just a few more.

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