Harvard’s bureaucracy has exploded, which explains so much

October 28, 2023 By Andrea Widburg

Harvard was founded in 1636 to educate clergymen for the burgeoning Puritan population. Over the centuries, its antiquity gave it status, especially given that some of its graduates had a profound impact on America. In the old days, most of that impact was good. The same cannot be said for too many of its recent graduates, who are mush-brained leftists who support mass murderers. A College Fix analysis of what’s going on at Harvard may help explain its decline: It’s a bureaucrats’ paradise.

Years ago—and I can’t find the reference now—I read that, while the faculty-student ratio at most American colleges had remained stagnant since the 1960s, the number of administrators compared to students had grown by almost 400%. In other words, all the free and subsidized government money that was causing tuition to skyrocket wasn’t being used to improve the classroom experience and increase the number of students with access to that experience. Instead, it was going to improve the bureaucracy.

Nothing more clearly exemplifies that reality than this data from Harvard:....To Read More....