I'm not lovin' it.

• Author: Petrova
• Position: LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Benjamin Ginsberg's article about the growth of administrators at American colleges ["Administrators Ate My Tuition," September/October 2011] is very familiar to me. I am the lowest on the faculty totem pole (adjunct) and haven't gotten a raise in a decade. I get no benefits, no sick pay, and no vacation. The full-time faculty get a better deal, but their salaries and benefits have been frozen for years.

However, in my program, there is a "director" and five "assistant directors," each of whom makes as much as an assistant professor and enjoys a complete benefits package. None of us can figure out what they do that one good secretary couldn't. They schedule. They answer e-mail. I presume they're supposed to plan ahead and/or make reports or do research, but they don't do any of that. None of these positions existed when I started ten years ago. These six administrators' salary and benefits account for more than 50 percent of the annual budget...