It is interesting in this discussion, that no mention of administrative salaries is made. The American Association of University Professors salary study across many universities, both public and private, shows that the rate of increase in faculty salaries falls well short of increases in the salaries of presidents and other central administrators. Moreover, the major increases in college and university employees are not in tenure-track faculty, but rather in full-time, nonfaculty professionals. In short, the AAUP concludes that growing costs for education are NOT due to increases in faculty numbers or salaries, nor of staff support positions. Hence, Brown should consider the savings he could produce by getting rid of the excessive number of assistant VP's or associate VP's. In his letter to the BU community, he states that he is freezing salary increases for any administrator making $150K or more, but if they're making that much, they should be working a lot harder and have fewer helpers (aka assistant and associate VPs). The business model of high salaries for the middle to upper managers and low salaries for the actual workers hasn't worked well for business and doesn't work well for universities either.