For one, it can be leaner; tenure-line faculty to student ratios are unchanged while adminstrator-to-student ratios more than doubled in the last 25 years. &quot;There are now two nonacademic employees at public and two and a half at private universities and colleges for every one full-time, tenure-track member of the faculty.&quot;  Yet we have to take out our own garbage.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;necir.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;06&#x2F;new-analysis-shows-problematic-boom-in-higher-ed-administrators&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;necir.org&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;06&#x2F;new-analysis-shows-problematic-b...</a>