<p>Missing from the litany of Trickle Up effects is the impact on administration and staff (who already outnumber full-time faculty). How much of every dollar in new college expenditures makes its way to “vice presidents, associate vice presidents, assistant vice presidents, provosts, associate provosts, vice provosts, assistant provosts, deans, deanlets, and deanlings”?
([Administrators</a> Ate My Tuition by Benjamin Ginsberg | The Washington Monthly](<a href=“http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/administrators_ate_my_tuition031641.php?page=all]Administrators”>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/administrators_ate_my_tuition031641.php?page=all))</p>
<p>If the Pell increase amounts to dollar-for-dollar cost shifting from the college to the federal government, allowing the college to invest a high percentage of the savings into enhanced educational quality, I’m for it. Raise Pell Grants more, in that case. But what enhancements does the increased tuition revenue actually buy?</p>