Administrative Bloat

Trump’s Forcing Schools to Hire ‘Title VI Coordinators’ Risks Feeding the Same Bloated Bureaucracy He’s Fighting

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by American Greatness on August 25, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Trump’s war on self-serving colleges and universities appears to be going well. Settlements from race and sex discrimination investigations have been reached with Columbia, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania, among others. However, one provision in […]

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Nine Recommendations for Trustees to Lower University Spending and Reduce Personnel

The American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation have released a new booklet of advice for university trustees. My short contribution focuses on how trustees can reduce university spending and personnel and offers nine recommendations which I summarize below.   Recommendation #1: Have a Specific and Measurable Goal A clear, specific, and measurable goal is […]

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The American University in Crisis: A War on Science, Faculty, and Freedom

The American university is in distress. Enrollment is declining, tenure is disappearing, administrative costs are ballooning, and public trust in academia is eroding. More concerning, however, is the deeper structural crisis that has transformed universities from bastions of knowledge into battlegrounds of ideological warfare and administrative overreach. At the heart of this crisis lies a […]

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Everything a University Does Can Be Done in Half the Time for Half the Cost

When I was a business executive and CEO in the transportation and technology sector, we used a concept called “lean thinking.” This concept is a manufacturing philosophy developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Jim Womack, who has been called the “Godfather of Lean,” a nickname that stemmed from his work as a consultant […]

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Who are the Real Oppressors? Cancel Culture, Student Consumerism, Administrative Bloat, and The Rise of Student Power

In modern higher education, students hold unprecedented power over faculty and university governance. This influence, shaped by the combined forces of cancel culture, student consumerism, and administrative bloat, has shifted the traditional power dynamics, leading to significant consequences for how universities function and how faculty engage with students. Although student empowerment can sometimes drive positive change, […]

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