Too many administrators and too few faculty?

This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education asks how many administrators are too many.  It points out that a perennial complaint of the faculty advocates is the alleged rise in administrators and decline in tenured faculty.

http://chronicle.com/article/Counting-Up-the-Campus-Work/136477/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Let's ask what might be behind it:

Could it be that too many tenured faculty are on campus too little, teach too few courses, and contribute too little to the running of their institutions?

Could it be that tenured faculty are almost impossible to terminate, even when all of the above is true?

Could it be that administrators --- put aside the million-dollar presidents and the six-figure senior execs --- are relatively underpaid and overworked as compared to their tenured faculty colleagues?

I'm only asking.

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