[quote=livinincali]The budgets are tight because the schools have spent too much money on things that aren’t all that useful for educating students. Everybody says the problem is state funding went down but when you look at the actual numbers, per student spending by the state is pretty close to the same as it was 10 years ago. Alright so let’s factor in salary increases for the educators of 50% over the past 10 years if that. So UC schools should be costing about 50% more maybe even 75% more than they did 10-15 years ago, but instead they cost 300-400% more. Where is all that money going. It’s going into more administrators, more glitzy buildings, more things that do little to nothing to provide an education.[/quote]

Exactly. I work pretty closely with UCSD, and have a great example. In one department, there was a consistent 150K/year overage. The “fix” was to move the administrator in charge to a position that hadn’t been filled for a couple of years, hire a replacement AND a “project manager” to help control costs. So they basically added somewhere near 200K/year in salaries to “fix” a 150k/year overage.