Posted on 02/16/2011 5:21:39 PM PST by bkopto
In what must have been one of his most painful tasks in office, UNLV President Neal Smatresk warned faculty leaders Tuesday to prepare for a budget catastrophe — news that left some in tears. (SNIP) The faculty was angry and indignant. “I’m sick we are destroying much of what we’ve built,” said Cecilia Maldonado, an educational-leadership professor and chairwoman of the Senate. (SNIP) The emotion built again when Maldonado read a list of grievances, each beginning with “I’m sick.” She said she is sick of politicians caricaturing professors with “our fat salaries and easy living.” She said she is sick that the public doesn’t seem to understand the importance of higher education. John Filler, a special-education professor and former chairman of the Faculty Senate, said, “There is nothing that we’ve done to deserve this.” His voice broke, people applauded. “I can’t believe the taxpayers will let this happen but if they do,” Filler said, “let’s make sure this doesn’t happen without a fight.” More applauded.
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The inevitable result when the socialists run out of other people’s money...
yeah, for “professors” the “school” just has a bunch of sickos.
I guess the opposite of mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm is boo hoo hoo.
I was upset at my parents when I was 19 and they pulled away their financial support for my undergrad education after I wasted a year partying, getting terrible grades, and not being productive.
20 years later, I still can’t thank them enough for the tough love they showed me.
Somehow, I think this is a lesson that adult freeloaders like those in public academia won’t be able to learn.
Unfortunately, Dina Titus, former one term congressman from district 3, probably has too much tenure as prof of poli sci to be on the pink slip list.
Titus was swept into congress on The Obammunist's coat tails and lasted one term. She and her hubby pull down over $250,000 at UNLV.
One good thing, though, the UNLV pres said the College of Liberal Arts would take a big hit.
The University Medical Center, being bankrupted by illegal aliens and supported by dwindling county funds, could be on the chopping block.
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I’m sick of paying university profs an outrageous salary for indoctrinating our children into Marxism for three classes a semester.
Get out into the real world if you want to be sick.
I “get sick” everytime I open my property tax bill. Stuff it, you leftist professor freaks, you’re going on a starvation diet.
I’d sooner feed a stray dog than you.
Karma is tough, especially when you’re raiding my wallet to keep you in cups of Starbucks and $65 veggie plates at some leftist restaurant.
Buy some beans and rice like the rest of us. As for your generous retirement, forget it. There’s no way on Earth that I’m denying my kids food so you can fly to Paris and stroke your Leninist beard at some commie sidewalk cafe.
I’ll personally hang you before that happens.
The university is in your property tax assessment, not the state sales or income taxes? I thought that was just for secondary schools.
“Educational Leadership” professor?
” Destroying what they’ve built?”
We’ve seen what those Obama-holes have built.
Hope the sewer is big enough to hold it.
Close down the schools of grievance mongering and race baiting, close the education schools that don't educate anyone, close the English departments that produce reams of gibberish that no one reads. You want to learn ballet dancing or sculpture or newspaper reporting? Apprentice yourself or take a correspondence course.
And if nothing else, CLOSE DOWN THE GOD DAMNED LAW SCHOOLS. We have more lawyer parasites and pirates than we need for the next thousand years.
An 'educational-leadership professor'? Get a job, Cecilia.
secondary => secondary and primary
And the stray dog will probably lick your hand rather than bite it.
Perhaps a bit off topic, but the Ivy League Schools run this country’s government and institutions, and have for a long time. How’s that working out for you?
I’d like to see more Reagan’s from never-heard-of schools that have a little common sense.
College educations are grossly over rated unless they are in a strickly technical discipline.
Afro-American Studies
Asian Studies
Classical studies
Ethnic studies
German
Human services
Italian Studies
Latin American studies
Sociology
Woman Studies.
They look to have a pretty core university. They also service the hospitality and gaming industries which I left alone.
I would recommend that they go back to 120 units and 132 units for science(labs) to graduate. That will cut some more nonsense out of the university.
Back to the basics folks. Educate for jobs that society needs not fluff
Time to sacrifice assh#$es! Maybe if you jerks--and many like you-- would have done your job a lot of the people in this country wouldn't be a bunch of stupid lazy slobs.
50 years of Decadence has sent it's invoice. Time to pay.
Please give us tort reform and the English Rule.
Stop the Lawyer entitlement gravy train.
Parasitical metastasizing pigs.
I suppose all those subsidized green jobs aren’t helping the economy much out there. Maybe when Obama’s high speed trains get going, then they’ll get their jobs back.
College graduates without one ounce of economic sense. From the time I entered the service, to the time I retired, the Air Force was downsizing. Beginning with some 800,000 people to end up approximately half that number. I count myself extremely lucky to have survived the continual reductions in force and made it to retirement.
Never heard any service personnel complain that what they had built up or accomplished was being torn down or destroyed, never heard anyone complain that the people paying for us didn’t understand, how important we were, same with fairness, there wasn’t any, the money wasn’t there and someone had to go. Had nothing to do with we didn’t deserve this treatment.
There was certainly no guarantee, and I wasn’t able to protest the downsizing. Manning in the services was up to someone way above my pay grade.
There are no guarantees in life, other than death and taxes as they say. This seems to have been forgotten among the emotional and academic cripples in “higher” education.
What I am waiting for is for some State legislature to direct university presidents to compile two lists.
The first list is for courses that are entirely elective, and not essential to any major course of study. And the second is a list of majors, and how many graduate placements for those majors in their field within six months after graduation.
Just compiling these lists should be highly entertaining. But what will be more so is when the university president is required to eliminate 50% of the first list, and the bottom quarter of the second list.
As far as students taking those majors, they will be informed that the university is no longer offering them, so they can either change majors, or they need to transfer to a different institution still offering that major.
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