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3 to 1: That’s the Best Ratio of Tenure-Track Faculty to Administrators, a Study Concludes

November 05, 2012
by Communications
administration, Budget, cost of higher education, salaries
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November 1, 2012. By Jenny Rogers,  Chronicle of Higher Education.
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In the long-running debate over how many administrators are too many, two economic researchers believe they have identified an ideal ratio. For colleges to operate most effectively, they say, each institution should employ three tenured or tenure-track faculty for every one full-time administrator.

What the ratio is now is difficult to say, though most colleges probably would have to hire significantly more faculty or pare back on administrators if they wanted to meet a three-to-one goal. The numbers are fuzzy and inconsistent because universities report their own data. Different institutions categorize jobs differently, and the ways they choose to count positions that blend teaching and administrative duties further complicate the data. When researchers talk about “administrators,” they can never be sure exactly which employees they are including. Sometimes colleges count librarians, for example, as administrators, and sometimes they do not.

Continue reading this article on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s website.

Read Martin’s August 2012 Article on the Chronicle: College Costs Too Much Because Faculty Lack Power

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