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Z P's avatar

Do you have an idea of why the number of staff has increased (this much)? My colleague points out that from an organizational economics point of view an org could get larger when within-org communication and coordination costs go down, which I don't think is what's going on here given that you also have total expenditure data (we know that the increase is not driven by SLACs moving in-house what they used to outsource, or do we?)

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Sophie's avatar

Interesting to see academic administration jobs have gone down around the country in liberal arts colleges, not just at my college.

I am surprised that librarians have increased as I know most librarians at my school don’t make the full 2080 hours. It’s become a real issue for them and turn over is high.

Also do you think the price of colleges has gone up at all because of the amount of infrastructure that is being built on campuses? New libraries and hockey arenas? I would be interested to see if there is actually an increase in building or if it has always been this way.

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