Is there any wonder why college tuition has become so expensive?
The College Fix reports:
Northwestern employs 1 administrator for every 2 undergrads: analysisNorthwestern 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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