Northwestern has ‘One Admin for Every Two Undergrads,’ Including New DEI Staff
“During the 2021-22 school year, the most recent data available, the university employed 4,258 full-time administrators and support staff”
Is there any wonder why college tuition has become so expensive?
The College Fix reports:
Northwestern employs 1 administrator for every 2 undergrads: analysis
Northwestern University employs more than one administrator for every two undergraduates, including several new DEI staff in its sports program, a College Fix analysis found.
In the past decade, the private Illinois school has created nearly 400 new administrative and support staff positions while also adopting a policy to hire more “diverse” staff.
Meanwhile, its student enrollment numbers remained relatively stagnant.
During the 2021-22 school year, the most recent data available, the university employed 4,258 full-time administrators and support staff, according to information the university filed with the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
Administrators and support staff include management, student and academic affairs divisions, IT, public relations, administrative support, maintenance, legal and other non-academic departments.
That year, its reported full-time undergraduate student enrollment was 8,438. That amounts to 505 full-time administrators and support staff per 1,000 undergrads, or more than one for every two students.
In 2013, the university employed 3,867 administrative and support staff, meaning the university added 391 new positions by 2021, the data shows.
Northwestern added new faculty positions as well, but the increase was not as large. From 2013 to 2021, the school added 141 new positions, according to the data.
The university media relations office did not respond to several requests for comment this month from The College Fix asking for its reaction to the findings and its plans for instructional staff hiring.
In 2021, the university instituted a policy to hire more “diverse candidates” as part of its “inclusivity and equity” mission.
“We look forward to an ever more diverse and equitable staff workforce as a result of this policy and other efforts throughout the University,” it stated in the May 2021 announcement.
Among other things, the university policy directs human resources to work with hiring managers to create a “diverse slate of candidates” to interview for new positions, and search committees to include “diverse membership to mitigate unconscious bias in the recruitment and selection process.”
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That’s evanston where they tax cannabis for “reparations”.
Another misleading “analysis.’ The “report” conveniently excludes 14,000 graduate students and an R1 research infrastructure.
What does the Division, Exclusion and Indoctrination staff in their athletics department do, remind all the predominately minority athletes how oppressed they are by getting a college education paid for in return for them playing games? Just curious.
While they give athletic scholarships that were intended for women to trannys, and blame it all on straight males.
I believe Stanford has more administrators than undergraduate students.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education:
“Stanford enrolled 7,645 undergraduates in the fall of 2021 and employed 8,800 full-time staff members outside of its medical school who didn’t have teaching as a primary duty according to data it reported to the Department of Education. “
I just had a brilliant idea. End all the campus makework jobs. Get rid of all the incompetent diversity hires. Keep the competent ones — there must be some.
Take the money saved and go into the nearest ‘hood. Find some gangbangers and pay them to stay out of trouble. Go to jail, the money stops. Diversity, equity and inclusion are satisfied, and some real good is done.
Thoughts?
Is that like paying blacks “reparations” so they don’t loot and shoplift?
Northwestern and other American universities are what they are … because they like what they are.
Even if these places wanted to change, it would take time — a few years, at the least.
So — If you want to further your formal education, if you want to prepare yourself to be successful in your 30s and 40s and 50s … go abroad.
There’s the usual failure to distinguish administrators (managers) from staff people (non-managers), but the point of the report is clear.
Let’s get the direction of causality straight. R1 institutional infrastructure is loaded with extra administrators because the “indirect costs” help to pay for them.