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Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by CPLX on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:03PM (#39947801)
> fantastically bloated administrative and overhead costs

Indeed. Go check the trends on the ratio of non-teaching staff to students at these major name colleges.

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Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by ckrapu on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:45PM (#39948189)
“non-teaching staff” includes all the research scientists, postdoc, and techs that help make the research happen. These universities are not especially good at teaching compared to SLACs. They are exceptionally good at research.
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Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by CPLX on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:11PM (#39949113)
That’s not what most of these people are doing.

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2023/01/05/more-employees-t...

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Re:Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100k a Year. How Did This... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:17AM (#39950167)
Those people are paid for out of research grants, not tuition.
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