"The growth in [college and university] support staff included some jobs that did not exist 20 years ago, like environmental sustainability officers and a broad array of information technology workers. The support staff category includes many different jobs, like residential-life staff, admissions and recruitment officers, fund-raisers, loan counselors and all the back-office staff positions responsible for complying with the new regulations and reporting requirements college face."  Tamar Lewin, The New York Times, April 2009. 

Source:  Carpe Diem blog, Professor Mark Perry.