One Lens for Viewing “Administrative Bloat”
The Globe’s Gary Mason wrote an interesting article yesterday about the Gupta resignation. Actually, let me qualify: he wrote a very odd article, which ignored basically everything his Globe colleagues Simona Chiose and Frances Bula had reported the previous week, in order to peddle a tale in which the UBC Board fired Gupta for wanting to reduce administrative costs. This, frankly, sounds insane. But Mason’s article did include some very eye-opening statistics on the increase of administrative staff at UBC over the past