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 history professor Scott Laderman, whom I interviewed earlier this month 

for a piece on impending budget cuts there,

 recently gave a talk about administrative and academic spending.

Being a faculty-union official, you can imagine his take. He mentioned newspaper articles that have been critical about spending at the U, including last December's 

 article that suggested administrative bloat at the school.

He gave some statistics on how the Duluth campus shapes up:

Two of the items he mentioned: Duluth executives have received percentage raises that are three times what faculty have received; and the campus has more administrators per student than the national average.

At the 12:40 mark -- the middle third or so on page 5 -- he provides striking salary data:

Laderman did caution that the data can be hard to decipher -- and U officials have repeatedly said the federal data is flawed.

But at the 11:10 mark (the last third of page 4), he compares staffing levels per student.

He says the national average for faculty at four-year public institutions is eight faculty per 100 full-time-equivalent students. UMD, by comparison, has a 5:1 ratio.

The national average for administrators and staff at 4-year public institutions is six per 100 full-time-equivalent students. UMD, he says, has 8:4.

(The video is above, and his notes are below. It's not long -- just under 20 minutes -- but he gives a lot of information.)

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University of Minnesota – Duluth history professor Scott Laderman, whom I interviewed earlier this month for a piece on impending budget cuts there, recently gave a talk about administrative and academic spending. Being a faculty-union official, you can imagine his take. He mentioned newspaper articles that have been critical about spending at the U, including 

University of Minnesota – Duluth history professor Scott Laderman, whom I interviewed earlier this month for a piece on impending budget cuts there, recently gave a talk about administrative and academic spending. Being a faculty-union official, you can imagine his take. He mentioned newspaper articles that have been critical about spending at the U, including Read more →


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