The Growth of Administration (Part 2)

By Alex Usher. In yesterday’s blog, I ended on the observation that over the period 2000-2012 at the 12 major universities where we have data (UBC, SFU, Alberta, Calgary, USask, Manitoba, Carleton, York, Toronto, Waterloo, Western, and Memorial) the rate of growth of support staff and administration was 16% faster than the rate of growth of academic staff. More...