Also, reduce the gigantic growth in the number of administrators and administrative salaries, so that resources are devoted to our primary mission: serving the public good with new knowledge and educating citizens regardless of income.
Another reason for administrative bloat is that, although the number of faculty is strictly regulated by the administration, there is no one regulating the number of administrators except the college or university president.
Schools have created a classic bubble, says Thiel: Inflation-adjusted spending on administration per student jumped 61% between 1993 and 2007, while the number of administrators per 100 students rose 39%, reports the Goldwater Institute.
The number of administrators is reduced, forcing valuable specialists to waste time on paperwork.
While fewer undergraduates are being taught by full-time professors, the number of administrators keeps growing.
In the last two years, the Elementary School Proficiency Assessment scores in writing were so low that a number of administrators, parents and teachers began to question the validity of the test.
The number of administrators has fallen, doctors and nurses have risen, productivity has gone up, and waste has been cut by over £5 billion a year.
The change will bring the number of administrators with the title of deputy chancellor to eight — more than double the current number.
The number of administrators per school is just below the national average, he said, and there is evidence that districts with more administrators may actually increase the effectiveness of schools.
