Administration ranks grow faster than faculty at Texas, U.S. colleges - CHRISTY HOPPE, The Dallas Morning News

The glass offices at the nation's leading universities have filled faster than the classrooms, with new layers of administrators added at twice the rate of faculty and instructors, according to a study being released today. Researchers who looked at employee categories at the top 196 universities from 1993 to 2007, a period in which college costs skyrocketed, said they found "administrative bloat." "This is the bureaucracy of the university," said Dr. Jay P. Greene, a University of Arkansas professor who led the study on behalf of the conservative Goldwater Institute. "I'd say Texas stands out where there are really some strong examples of huge growth in administration with relatively little growth in instruction," Greene said.