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Well, the typical story is that the money is going to an overabundance of administrators, construction boondoggles, and institutional vendors. There's a lot of profit-taking that happens in academics, and administration is always going to slim faculty and programs at the expense of pet projects and personal priorities. Faculty lost control of the academic enterprise to professionalized administration, and there does not appear to be any chance of a reversal.


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