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.
I appreciate you pointing to the data. I suspect that some of the trends you found are true throughout institutional categories or groupings while others might be surprisely different.
Interesting. So that category in the US data also includes academic support staff, not just librarians. I can (and maybe should) try to look at more fine grained data, but my guess is that the increase is on the academic support side, not librarians.
That would actually cohere with what we found in NZ! Fewer librarians and technicians (proportionally), and more ‘general services’ and ‘student welfare’ staff.
Good question. The glossary says "Projected annual expenditure for salaries." I think this means just salaries, not benefits. I also think this because there was no distinct bump down in AY2020 when I know that a lot of schools in my peer group (including mine) cut retirement benefits to save on expenses during the COVID year.
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.
I appreciate you pointing to the data. I suspect that some of the trends you found are true throughout institutional categories or groupings while others might be surprisely different.
I agree! I think this is what I’ll write about this upcoming week.
Thanks. Interesting that expenditure on librarians went up. We found that librarians have gone down as a proportion of total non-academic staffing. The rise in expenditure on managers chimes with our finding that white-collar roles proportionally increased at NZ unis. https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/reports/blessing-or-bloat-non-academic-staffing-in-new-zealand-universities-in-comparative-perspective/
Interesting. So that category in the US data also includes academic support staff, not just librarians. I can (and maybe should) try to look at more fine grained data, but my guess is that the increase is on the academic support side, not librarians.
That would actually cohere with what we found in NZ! Fewer librarians and technicians (proportionally), and more ‘general services’ and ‘student welfare’ staff.
Does the salary data include just actual salaries or is it the “fully loaded” cost of compensation, including benefits, etc?
Good question. The glossary says "Projected annual expenditure for salaries." I think this means just salaries, not benefits. I also think this because there was no distinct bump down in AY2020 when I know that a lot of schools in my peer group (including mine) cut retirement benefits to save on expenses during the COVID year.