<p>One school breaks down the "bloat" and finds most of it is what students/faculty need/want.</p>
<p>Counting</a> Up the Campus Work Force - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education</p>
<p>Looks like that’s an article that requires a paid subscription.</p>
<p>Brief excerpt</p>
<p>“At Nebraska, nonfaculty jobs include computer programmers, instrument makers, and mail carriers. Over the past decade, the number of jobs with “director” in their titles has been cut in half, to 34. Meanwhile, research staff doubled, technology jobs grew by nearly 80 percent, and student-life positions increased by 53 percent.”</p>
<p>I’m sure IT infrastructure is part of that “bloat”. I attended college before PCs were invented so obviously that support tail was not required. I have to wonder what “student life” positions are.</p>
<p>Suspect “student life” is counseling/advising type of positions, but it is so imprecise, it could be anything.</p>
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<p>I’m getting a silly 10character message, for some reason…</p>
<p>It is a standard trick, when budget cuts come, to cut the most essential services one can get away with, so that the pain is immediate and strongly felt.</p>