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Faculty Salary Data, 2020-21

We haven’t looked at faculty salaries in awhile, so let’s do that. Getting a handle on recent faculty salary data is easy: it’s the one thing that Statscan does both rapidly and well in the higher education field.  It may take them 30 months to produce student enrolment data, and they collect no data at all about college tuition or non-academic staff, but by gum they can process university salary data in under 12 months! (Yes, this does tell you

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January 11, 2022 1 Comment

Globe Data Wrongness

On Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a major story about the gender gap in pay at Ontario universities by Chen Wang and Robyn Doolittle.  On the whole, I thought the piece was accurate concerning the politics of equity inside the academy.  But one of the conclusions was that there is “steadily growing” gender wage gap at universities and this is codswallop, born of some seriously suspect data analysis.  Consider the blog my way of correcting the record. Wang and Doolittle’s data

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June 7, 2021 1 Comment

Canadian University Expenditures, 2018-19

Ok, after nine years of this blog, you all know the drill.  Yesterday was about university income trends, so that means today covers expenditures.  Let’s start by looking at expenditures by type.  Universities are labour-intensive places, with 59% of total expenditures devoted to compensation of one sort or another (if we were to look just at operating expenditures, it would be higher).  About 10% goes into new buildings, building renovations, utilities and general upkeep.  Another ten percent is devoted “buying stuff” (materials,

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October 14, 2020 No Comments

One Last Thought (Really) on Administrative Bloat, 2020

NOTE: Please see this blog for a correction to the U of T numbers. (I promise this is the last one.) Here is the graph from yesterday and last Wednesday, on academic and non-academic staff numbers, only this time with UBC included because the folks there kindly sent me their numbers. Figure 1: Percentage Growth in Academic vs. A&S Staff numbers, Self-Selected Institutions Which Publish Staffing Data, 2010 to most recent year available              Yesterday, I pointed out that this

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February 25, 2020 1 Comment

One More Thought on Administrative Bloat

One of the great things about Twitter is the quick feedback about things.  And last Wednesday, when I posted the graph below, people started banging on right away, saying “Yeah! Right on!  Administrative Bloat!” Figure 1: Percentage Growth in Academic vs. A&S Staff numbers, Self-Selected Institutions Which Actually Publish Staffing Data, 2010 to most recent year available             Nobody took me up on the offer about how to think about that graph in connection with what I had published the previous

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February 24, 2020 No Comments

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