You do know Forbes is the Bleacher Report for the news, right? It's where amateurs post their drivel.
But, even in the link you posted, he is looking at tuition increases which, AGAIN, is not expenditures! This is the whole point. To say administrator expenses are up 35% over 20 years is not to say they are a cost driver for tuition, since the total cost of all administrator salaries are still under 1%. It's interesting that even the article acknowledges that full-time faculty is now way down in numbers, but then the author conflates administrator/faculty pay as the same thing, which it's not. There are a lot more administrators, a lot fewer faculty. By combining them both, he shows increased labor costs. It's a deception.
The rest of the stuff is just mind-boggling canards. Sabbaticals every 3 years? Huh? Where? Not at any institution I know of. Where does he come up with that? I suspect he doesn't know the difference between a sabbatical and an unpaid leave (i.e. for a fellowship or project). Sabbaticals are fully paid, and they're only available at R1 research institutions, and they happen about once a decade for more faculty. Those who take more time off from teaching do so with the help of outside grants and fellowships while the university stops paying them salary (though sometimes a school may decide to top off the professor's salary if the fellowship is somewhat lower than the salary).
As for the pensions, you listed retired people. From the Health Center. Those pensions stopped being options for new employees 2 decades ago.
Here's the UConn retirement plan for employees:
http://www.osc.ct.gov/empret/tier3spd/letter.htm
It's a 403(b), a non-profit form of the 401(k).
