400 positions cut at NCSU, UNC

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Funny, but it didn't seem to register that NCSU, with the largest student body of all, had approximately half of the administration that some other state universities with LESS students have (others, like Chapel Hill and Greenville). And less average pay per administrator.
Why didn't this get mentioned, except that there was a chart with a lot of numbers?
Seems like the cuts would occur most at the schools that are most top-heavy with administrators, eh?
But NCSU, for some reason, wasn't even cited for having an administration about three-fold as efficient as the ones in Chapel Hill and Greenville, among others.

That's what i liked about my alma mater, NCSU - down to the business of teaching. That's the single greatest memory i have of my old school days - the dedication of the professors, who seemed to love what they were doing.

Working at one of the Triangle Universities and approximately 8 months ago HR had all payroll college coordinators move the administrative salaries of faculty from what is known as the 1110 line to the 1310 line. 1110 is related to OSBM sub-object code administrative salaries and 1310 line is OSBM related to teaching salaries. So a faculty member who made $20k administrative and $90k teaching now makes $110 teaching and the state cannot touch the money. As a result many of the administrative jobs affected were SPA jobs. During that timeframe College Payroll Coordinators also moved the majority of the money assigned to a vacant position to a reserve account so that the state could not touch the money. So if a vacant faculty position was "worth" $75k, $50k was moved to reserve and $25k was left in the line. Implication to the state, reduction of position, reality $50k for that position kept for a rainy day.

Another recent development. Faculty members received promotions (with the tenure-world) and those promotions included salary increase of 5-15% This practice not only widens the divide between the working classes within the University system but demonstrates that the University continues to "hide" business practices from the public.

Transparency is in the eyes of the beholden, not the beholder!

Ken Peacock, chancellor at ASU, just added a position to his office, so I would love to know what administrative positions ASU has lost.

Yes, I know, I know. They follow a list of priorities. I've seen them. But those are decided upon by department heads and deans and up the food chain and then presented to the faculty as holy writ (some faculty governance, eh?). I know of one exiting department head who deliberately tried to settle several old scores by eliminating a program because the faculty were finally talking about bringing a grievance against this person, and s/he wanted them out before s/he had to return to a faculty position. S/he was stopped, but who else has gotten away with such vindictive nonsense? 

What happens is all the high level folks get in a room and talk about what positions they're going to cut, and if you're in the room, no one's going to suggest that one of them might be your position. It's ridiculous. Some of those bozos are the very ones who ought to go.

How many people actually lost their job? How many of these cuts were open positions not currently filled?

I am sorry people are losing their jobs, but they shouldn't have overhired in the first place.

It is very sad to see the education budget slashed while some other sectors benefiting from absurd increases or stable funding.... India and China have been steadily increasing the rate of graduation of engineers and scientists per capita than the US. We're now lagging behind and we're still thinking if education should be a  priority! No more excuses: let's fund education for brighter future...

How much money are these people making?!? The math works out to over $250,000 per position. Multi year contracts perhaps? IF not I'm in the wrong business....