Whenever there is bureaucracy, you get useless employees paid to do nothing. So while it’s unclear why Brown University needs “one administrator for every two undergrads,” it’s evident that this may or may not have something to do with bureaucracy running deep.

One Brown student was curious why he pays nearly $100,000 in tuition and fees annually while “the annual budget deficit is $46 million.” This is why he put his DOGE hat on and did what he felt needed to be done, and demanded that faculty prove they are not useless buffoons getting paid to sit around all day. It’s unclear if anyone was able to do so, but now the university is victim-blaming the student and investigating him rather than focusing on its budget downfalls.

According to The Post Millennial:

Sophomore Alex Shieh detailed the incident in an article for Pirate Wires, explaining that he created a public database mapping the university’s 3,805 non-faculty employees and sent each one an email asking, “What do you do all day?” The email follows similar practices done by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has sent requests to federal employees asking them to outline their job duties.

There is no reason why a school with a student population of less than 12,000, including graduate students, needs that many faculty members. And while Brown is not a public university, at the very least, this should be done for the public university system, as we can almost be certain the problem would be far worse there.

Shieh said he compiled the database using publicly available information, including job postings, the student newspaper, and LinkedIn profiles. He then used GPT-4o to rank administrators by operational importance. His investigation was driven by concerns over rising tuition costs, as fees have risen to over $93,000 this year and the school runs a $46 million annual budget deficit.

“After doing some digging, I discovered that much of the money is being thrown into a pit of bureaucracy,” Shieh wrote. “The small army of 3,805 non-faculty administrators is more than double the faculty headcount, and makes for roughly one administrator for every two undergrads.”

He categorized certain positions as either diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) roles, redundant jobs, or what he called “bullsh*t jobs.”

This is more evidence added to the already overwhelming pile that proves school faculty members are nothing more than a bunch of DEI hires working "redundant" or "bullsh*t jobs.”

The other scandal is that by the time he graduates, he would have been able to pay for an averaged priced home in Providence, RI. That is how much these students go into debt, and the least the school can do is prove that they are not throwing their cash into a bottomless money pit.

“The administration probably figured they could bully me into backing down. But it won’t be that easy,” he wrote. “As I see it, America is supposed to be a meritocracy, and the Ivy League an economic ladder for bright kids from poor families. But Brown is greasing the rungs. With sky-high tuition and famously stingy financial aid — not to mention an antitrust settlement for allegedly colluding with other Ivies to lowball on financial aid offers — the American Dream is being paywalled.”

You really can't sum it up better than that. And while it’s not cool that the school is punishing him for doing what they should have done, I predict his future is not in jeopardy. Based on this story, this kid is going places, and I doubt the Brown bureaucracy will be able to get in the way.

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