It really is true that administrators create unnecessary meetings. I even have one that has meetings to plan meetings. They want to plan meetings so that nothing unscripted can happen in them. Why meet, then?
Every time they create a new administrative post, they also eliminate a tenure track or tenured position and replace it with an instructor or some adjuncts.
Some of the expertise a professor would have brought is then bought from a consultant or a textbook company. The rest of that expertise is simply not acquired.
How is it that money is really saved? Is it a cost-cutting plan — or is it structural adjustment?
We are to teach more and better, conduct more and better research, and do more and better service including volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. We are to accept that salaries will stay at 2008 numbers for the indefinite future.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
It’s the death of a thousand cuts.
Precisely ! ! !
And that is one more reason why it is not the “greatest job in the world” and why one should not just take a job, any job.
It is, the administration does not create conditions in which these things can be done right, because they are appointed by the Regents who are appointed by the Governor and are not really as competent as one would like.
The Gillard government is cutting billions in funding to universities in order to fund a new schools program. Ideologically, neither the left nor the right seems to be for higher education. Perhaps the former thinks it elitist and the latter thinks it a haven for pointy-headed liberals.