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What does the non-faculty staff does? Is it maybe connected to technical staff? They Can’t all be management?
Janitorial, technical, nutritional … basically anyone not involved in educating students “non-faculty.”
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The government should levy an 80% tax on this and use it to pay for student loan forgiveness.
To be fair, I hear the Ivies have extremely generous scholarships (probably amortized by the nepotism acceptances). Much fewer people of financial need are graduating these schools in massive debt.
Here is a 2024 article from the Stanford Daily: https://stanforddaily.com/2024/03/13/behind-stanfords-double... In 1996: 13,811 students, 1488 faculty, 5881 total staff. In 2024: 17,529 students, 2323 faculty, 16,527 total staff. In 28 years: 27% increase in students 56% increase in faculty 281% increase in total staff The ratio of staff to students is nearly 1:1 This is insane.
A more useful comparison would divide staff into "supported by tuition" (should be related to student count) and "supported by external grants and clinical income".
This idea that costs have increased because of administrative staff expansion is a popular one, but one that ignores what R1 universities spend money on, and where that money comes from. (Ironically, I suspect that the university may be spending more money on research, because of limits on indirect costs.)
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With an optimistic 10% annual return, this would amount to 1/5 of Cornell's budget.
then they need to find some cuts because Uncle Sam has a maxed out credit card and can't keep making up the difference whether he wants to or not
What does Cornell's 10 billion dollar endowment pay for?
Here is a 2024 article from the Stanford Daily: https://stanforddaily.com/2024/03/13/behind-stanfords-double... In 1996: 13,811 students, 1488 faculty, 5881 total staff. In 2024: 17,529 students, 2323 faculty, 16,527 total staff. In 28 years: 27% increase in students 56% increase in faculty 281% increase in total staff The ratio of staff to students is nearly 1:1 This is insane.
What does Cornell's 10 billion dollar endowment pay for?
It produces about 900 million in interest to run Cornell.
https://dbp.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FY25-Oper...