Ironically, protests against the administration will almost certainly grow the ranks, power, and budget of administrators.

Forbes reports.

The Real Winners In Campus Protests? College Administrators

November has been a turbulent month for American colleges. At campuses across the country, students have taken to the quads and administration buildings to protest “institutional racism” on the part of college leaders.

At the University of Missouri, student protesters decried a series of ugly incidents and, with the help of the football team (and an aggressive mass media professor), ousted the president of the university system and the chancellor of the flagship campus. At Claremont McKenna, a dean resigned after students protested her poorly-worded response to charges that the college marginalizes minority students. At Amherst, student activists demanded that the president punish those who had posted flyers about the importance of free speech. And at Yale, a seemingly innocuous email about Halloween costumes, “cultural appropriation,” and free speech led to highly-publicized campus protests.

In most cases, cowed college leaders have agreed to some student demands. Critics have bemoaned the whole spectacle as further evidence that freedom of speech no longer applies on college campuses, and that our next generation of leaders is being educated in a dissent-free “safe space.” Even President Obama warned that activists’ hostility toward different viewpoints is a “recipe for dogmatism.”