When faced with university budget cuts, go beyond 'knee-jerkism' - LAWRENCE PETTIT, Missoulian

Still haunting faculty, students and the public wherever colleges and universities are located is the knee-jerkism based on an unexamined assumption that such institutions are inevitably top-heavy with administrators. This may or may not be true, but it is testable. As an out-of-the-loop retiree, I do not have data on faculty-administration ratios for the various parts of the Montana University System, or how they compare on that measure with their regional and national peers, so I, too, will speak generally — with perhaps more relevant experience. https://missoulian.com/opinion/columnists/when-faced-with-university-budget-cuts-go-beyond-knee-jerkism/article_0c38ab49-4cff-53e9-bc53-f72435f63c34.html