[CTcard]

I've never looked too deeply into this, but it makes sense to me. That money has to be going somewhere, and it's not like there are all that many more Profs (or buildings).

Properly answering this takes many more words than anyone here wants to read.

The short answer is that i) there is a lot of tuition pressure but it's more political and less market pressure, ii) administration broadly speaking has taken a much larger share of university budgets over the past 40 years (partially mandated by state and federal rules), and iii) professors take a correspondingly smaller share of university budgets (see the rise of adjuncts, etc.).

[CTcard]

I've never looked too deeply into this, but it makes sense to me. That money has to be going somewhere, and it's not like there are all that many more Profs (or buildings).

Properly answering this takes many more words than anyone here wants to read.

The short answer is that i) there is a lot of tuition pressure but it's more political and less market pressure, ii) administration broadly speaking has taken a much larger share of university budgets over the past 40 years (partially mandated by state and federal rules), and iii) professors take a correspondingly smaller share of university budgets (see the rise of adjuncts, etc.).