I've worked in research administration at multiple universities and never saw any such thing. Mostly offices that are slightly understaffed and working hard.
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I wasn't in research. I was on the general administration side at a business school. And without naming names, there was a pretty public battle between the neighborhood they were in and the university.
They had absurd money, and they were very overstaffed.
Well schools that have absurd money are welcome to overstaff. those aren't expenses being paid for by the government. I'm guessing this was not a state school.
Ah okay. I took the original post to be a response to the Whitehouse recent edict to cut all IDC rates on federal research grants to 15% with the states purpose of ending administrative waste. But that funding is all specific to research related expenses
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They had absurd money, and they were very overstaffed.
The reason I brought it up is because in my experience, the bloat is an unemployment problem if we're talking about reducing bloat.
Everyone wants to save money until friends/family are unemployed.