Pater Drucker observed this trend a long time ago. Accompanying the
growth in administrators is, I maintain, the "proletarianization" of the
faculty. Hence, there is little wonder that faculties who correctly
understand this situation are responding like proletarians and unionizing.
The increasing bureaucratization of education has now reached the tipping point where
faculty represent less than half the full-time professional staff at Title IV
institutions. I have not seen any data to be able to project when more than half of
faculty time will be devoted to unproductive administrative duties, but what I
noticed here is that that point will not be too far off in the future.
U.S. Department of Education. 2008. Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall
2006, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Faculty, 2006-07, NCES 2008-172
(Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics).
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008172.pdf
Only 48.6 percent of full-time professional staff at Title IV institutions are
faculty, indicating a surge in administrators. In public institutions, 51.1 percent,
while the figure for private institutions is 44%.
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