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[QUOTE="dan7800, post: 5316097, member: 4923"]
Some of it is that schools need to spend more to attract more students most definitely. This ranges from better access services, to better food etc... Instruction is cheap.

I am not saying KS has done a good or bad job, but what he's facing is the norm for about 99% of schools across the US. The vast majority of schools in the US work on a razor thin margin, and it's much more complicated than just saying that the school has too many beauocrats. If it were that easy, schools wouldn't be in the situation that they are in. The four areas that come to mind to me are:

1) Increased focus on research: Most researchers lose money. Think the normal TT hire, at SU they may teach 2 classes a year and I'd be surprised if 10% even break even monetarily for the school (think startup packages etc..)
2) An increased need to have better things to attract more students.
3) In NYS at least, the college admissions scandal had a big blowback. The rules went far beyond legacy admissions etc... things that IMHO were not related to the original scandal and actually hurt students.
4) ... I won't say it because I dont want to get political ...
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