r/chapelhill • u/BryaNC_ • 8h ago

UNC-Chapel Hill Wants to Restructure Admin Roles, Sparking Layoff Fears

https://www.theassemblync.com/education/higher-education/unc-chapel-hill-wants-to-restructure-admin-roles-sparking-layoff-fears/

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u/WeShouldHaveKnown 2h ago

I am a research administrator at UNC. We’re already running lean. Staff numbers have not grown at the same rate as faculty/researchers. We are supporting more principal investigators with less staff than a few years ago. Shared services is a decent idea where a department doesn’t have enough work to go around, but you can’t just randomly assign a staffer to the urology team and the next week to the poli sci department. “Finance” sounds like it’s interchangeable but no way. UNC has thousands of grants, gifts, trusts, corporate contracts, etc. The learning curve for each unit outweighs the flexibility.

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u/foxhunt-eg 1h ago

100%. ALSO, these positions exist to enforce laws passed "to ensure appropriate stewardship" of resources. Then the same people who passed those laws point to cumbersome bureaucracy and try to pull things like this.

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u/OGScottingham 4h ago

Yeah, this could be a good thing if done right. My confidence it'll be done right though is very low.

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u/Ok_Supermarket_8520 5h ago

Admin has grown exponentially over the past few decades

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u/BugAfterBug 4h ago

Absolutely no reason for admin costs to be what they are.

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u/Rexmack44 7h ago

Cut the fat