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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by secabeen on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:27PM (#23035049)
Which of these expenses do you think they should eliminate?

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_334.10.a...

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by jimbokun on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:00PM (#23036059)
Not sure, but of the 44,965 being spent per student, only 7,219 is going to salaries and wages of the instructors (2016-17). Seems like an awful lot of overhead in there somewhere.
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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by clairity on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:40PM (#23035197)
i'm sure there's plenty of nuance, but that chart shows about 43% overall going to instruction & research, so everything else?

(until you get to ~80/20)

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by ttymck on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:51PM (#23035306)
Ideally you'd start with Instruction right? A breakdown of the "constituent categories" therein would be useful.
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