Enjoy the schadenfreude!: College professors face layoffs because of Obamacare

coachisright.com ^ | January 24, 2012 | Derrick Hollenbeck, staff writer

[lurk]

Lenin and Stalin made sure that the first ones shot or sent to the gulag were the agitators who made the 1917 revolution possible.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Reminds me of an old aphorism attributed to Kruschev, who on the occasion of the failure of yet another five year plan reputedly said, “What we really need to do around here is to shoot a few more intellectuals”.

[ladyjane]

Unfortunately, the Coach doesn’t know a lot about academia.

First of all, the adjuncts don’t dress that way and certainly don’t hang out in the faculty lounge with the real faculty. They’re like Obama was in Chicago, they’re outsiders. They have no vote, they have low status.

These adjuncts typically teach fewer than five courses, at three contact hours each course that adds up to 15 hours.

Even if office hours are counted (adjuncts who have office hours, LOL) and their course load is cut, the tenured faculty will not pick up that work load. For every adjunct there are many more Ph.D.’s desperate for a job in the Academy. They’ll be happy to cut their hours at Starbucks to teach a few courses.

[bgill]

Good. Hope all those thousands who signed the petition in support of Bill Ayers will be first on the firing list.

[autumnraine]

I LOVE Tard the Grumpy Cat!

[duckworth]

Being a professor has nothing to do with knowledge or talent. It has everything to do with kissing the correct asses for a long enough time.

[Dick Vomer]

Wait for those losing their health insurance due to Obamacare finding they can’t afford private insurance, make too much to qualify for Medicaid and Obamacare’s vaunted Insurance Exchanges don’t exist so they will have no health insurance AND get taxed more (a.k.a fined) because of it. Ain’t socialism great.

bingo... seeing already in the ER. Lots' of "no local physician" charts popping up or " I used to have Dr. X but he can't see me anymore".

[Cyber Liberty]

I’m crying a river of crocodile tears over here.

[listenhillary]

Colleges never die, they just lose their faculties. Maybe sooner under Obama care.

[Cyber Liberty]

I saw a couple of people mention it, but I can assure you these older “left-behinds” are going to have to take up the slack and work harder to make up the difference. This from someone in the private sector who has had to deal with this for a few years. That makes my feelings about this especialluy sweet.

[kosciusko51]

I found the pic on another thread, but it works here, too.

[houeto]

Harvard University’s Center for Responsive Politics has complied data...

They did WHAT to the data?