Among the new hires are multiple diversity related staffers, to the surprise of no one.
The College Fix reported:
MIT grew staff size by 1,200 while enrollment barely budgedThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology added more than 1,200 new administrative/support staff positions in less than a decade – including six “diversity, equity, and inclusion” assistant deans in one year, a College Fix analysis found.Meanwhile, between 2013 and 2022, undergraduate student enrollment remained basically flat.The administrative hiring increase coincides with concerted efforts by the research university to “advanc[e] diversity, equity, and inclusion” throughout its programs.During the 2022-23 school year, the most recent data available, the university employed 6,693 full-time administrators and support staff, according to information the school filed with the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.In 2013, that number was 5,474, according to the IPEDS data.Administrators and support staff include management, student and academic affairs divisions, IT, public relations, administrative support, maintenance, legal and other non-academic departments.Full-time undergraduate student enrollment was 4,499 in 2013 and 4,601 in 2022, according to the IPEDS data.Based on these numbers, MIT increased its staff by 1,219 while undergraduate enrollment increased by 102 students.In other words, the university added approximately 12 additional staff for every one additional student, according to The Fix’s analysis.Overall, the university employs approximately three administrators/support staff for every two undergraduate students.Its ratio of educators to students is similar, a little less than three to two. Across the past decade, MIT teaching/instructional faculty grew by more than 600, going from 5,775 in 2013 to 6,434 in 2022. The ratio of faculty to students was 1.4 faculty per student in 2022.
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