Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns

Re:Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns by Animats on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:50AM (#23219148)

the vast majority of the non instructional staff are not what many of us would consider to be "administrators".

Stanford has a bureaucracy so big that it has its own campus, in Redwood City. 35 acres, 2700 staff, a gym, a pool, a bus line, an auditorium, and an art collection. That's only Phase I. It's growing.

This campus has no students. No professors. No labs. It's all support staff.

Stanford has only 2,276 faculty.

[1] https://redwoodcity.stanford.edu/about/departments

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Re:Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns by slavik81 on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:56AM (#23219583)

I asked a friend about this stat last year. He was a graduate student at Stanford, and was surprised. A few days later, he came back saying that it appears that a big chunk of the non-faculty staff are researchers.

I'm not sure I believe that's the whole story, but I kind of want to see a more detailed breakdown to be sure it's not just a matter of silly categories for reasonable jobs.

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Re:Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns by GregarianChild on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:44AM (#23221601)

Your link [1] seems to suggest that the campus does not just house administration but also clinical departments of the School of Medicine. This may be School of Medicine administration, I am not sure.

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Re:Coronavirus will end the golden age for college towns by Animats on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:14PM (#23230664)

It seems to be administration. The School of Medicine and Stanford Hospitals are miles away.

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