I admit, I don't have the hard numbers. Just anecdotally, I have always had a hard time seeing that as the whole problem. I don't see into the chancellor/presidents office, but at the department level, very little admin gets funded. Faculty seem to need to do more with less support every year.

I've never been able to square this circle. I've been working in academia for a while, and colleges are not rolling in cash. Isn't tuition high because we pulled back on direct govt funding of colleges as we pushed loans. The cost of the institutions didn't change, just how we fund them.

There are people who change over time in a way you didn't expect, but you still have a lot of respect who they were to you in the past. It can make your impression of them very complicated, but sometimes those people do things like this. Then it becomes really clear to see, "oh they just sold out".