Those who once were technocratic paper-pushers ensuring compliance with federal financial aid and antidiscrimination regulations have morphed into enforcers of radical race and gender ideology. The great political economist Mancur Olson detailed how the growth of bureaucracies ultimately causes the decline of nations.
And that’s precisely what’s happened in the academy, as well-paid apparatchiks with no connection to universities’ teaching and research missions create and enforce codes that chill speech and eviscerate due process.
In recent decades, the growth in university bureaucracies has far outpaced the growth in faculties and student bodies. According to Department of Education data, between 1993 and 2009, college administrative positions expanded by 60%, a rate of growth 10 times that of tenured faculty.
Moreover, between 1987 and 2012, the number of administrators at private universities doubled, while their numbers in central offices of public university systems rose by a factor of 34. Overall, during that period, colleges added more than half a million administrators and then even more in the decade after that.
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