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This may be true at some level, but well never know how much is demand driven and how much is created on the whims or some idiosyncrasies of some administrators, or for the purpose of increasing the administrators fiefdoms. Once these programs are established, they will only grow, regardless of demand; there are always advocacy groups for them - the people who run these programs. </p>
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Someone has just found another place in university to add a layer of administrators, on top of the research centers. Research centers are among the most efficiently run organizations with a university, most with very few staff that are often shared with academic departments. Who is to pay for this additional supervision, beyond the center itself, office of research, and school/department? The administration bureaucracy has already more than exhausted the last pennies from research overhead funds. If it were not for a [sex</a> and financial scandal](<a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Cal-official-demoted-improperly-gave-pay-raises-3406876.php#ixzz1p102Phxy]sex”>http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/Cal-official-demoted-improperly-gave-pay-raises-3406876.php#ixzz1p102Phxy), few would have known that UC Berkeley had an assistant vice chancellor, making $188k/year, for managing human resources, purchasing and other administrative tasks for UC Berkeley’s research centers and institutes. She was only demoted to a director with a 7% pay cut, before a fire storm broke out.</p>