If you look at what the UC Office of the president does, there's a huge scope there that the other examples probably do not have <a href="http://www.ucop.edu/about/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ucop.edu/about/</a>
I'm sure there is a lot of waste in the UC Office of the President. But Universities have become huge, complicated behemoths with many functions besides education.<p>I recently saw a breakdown of where the money for one of the UC campuses comes from. About 50% was from the associated Medical center, about 25% was from federal research grants (many of which had PIs in the medical school and medical center), about 15% from tuition, and 10% from other sources (not broken down further). This wasn't UCSF, either, where I would expect the medical center's budget to dwarf everything else.<p>I don't think it would be too far fetched to call it a medical center that happens to have school with 30K undergraduates attached. I wonder how the cost of running the chancellor's office there compares with the costs of administration of a medical services company?<p>Of course, at this point aren't Yale and Harvard basically hedge funds?
I decided to explore what else this blogger blogs about, who I believe blogs from Arizona:<p>"Take the Pledge: Let's Take A Year Off From Giving To Our Universities"
<a href="http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2017/04/take-the-pledge-lets-take-a-year-off-from-giving-to-our-universities.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2017/04/take-the-pledg...</a><p>"How The Left Is Changing the Meaning of Words to Reduce Freedom -- The Phrase "Incite Violence"<p>Wealth Creation and the Zero-Sum Fallacy<p>Statism Comes Back to Bite Technocrats<p>He actually has a few views I can agree with, and links to plenty of things I read every week, but I don't think his analysis is particularly technical or hard hitting.