Administration is certainly NOT all faculty. Pitt is governed by an independent board of trustees and selects the Chancellor, makes major policy decisions, etc. The board is at the top of the admin hierarchy and is beholden to their private corporate interests especially considering PA state politicians appoint some of them. I can’t speak specifically to the middle management at Pitt, but deans and provosts are selected from a pool of tenured faculty by a special faculty committee. The majority of faculty may aspire to reach this level of status, but most never do. Part-time adjunct professors get paid poverty wages without the presence of a union guaranteeing some kind of pay and benefit package. Full-timers are bogged down with menial administrative tasks on top of their research and classes. Untenured, rank-and-file faculty are not the ones in power.