Posted on 04/23/2013 1:18:43 PM PDT by grundle
... colleges are reducing "part-time" faculty members' assignments. Because faculty are not hourly workers, this is meant to guarantee that these professors will not be eligible for employer-provided healthcare. It will also reduce these professors' incomes just when they will be responsible for purchasing their own insurance under the new law.
In other words, rather than fulfilling their responsibility under the letter and spirit of the law, most colleges are instead employing legal loopholes and manipulating definitions of faculty work in order to avoid it.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Well, here in Madistan WI, the UW system has managed to squirrel away 628 million in tuition that “nobody” knew about until today. Maybe they could use those funds they’ve been raping from the students to pay for their “free” healthcare.
They are proposing a 7% increase in tuition for next year because they’re broke.
Them dirty dogs.. All of them.
But isn’t this about adjunct’s that teach 30-hrs or more a week?
Hitting that 30-hr limit means colleges have to provide benefits (medical coverage) they previously didn’t have to. . .correct? I know of several adjunct’s that teach 30-hrs or more a week. . .some at the same college and others teach at various state colleges and put in 30-hrs or more a week.
I am adjunct faculty at a small college, teach one national government class per term. Never paid any attention to the other adjuncts because of two main reasons, 1) I didn’t have to, as I am retired and now try to educate students to teach them to THINK, to keep them from becoming unthinking government drones and, 2) all the other adjuncts are as liberal as they come and I never wanted to listen/associate with them anyway.
(As a side note, one of the faculty was ranting in the lounge about a lottery winner that won hundreds of millions of dollars and how she wanted the government to come in and take that money. You see, the government should decide, like obozo said, that at some point you made enough money, and in the case of the lottery winner, he won too much.)
Most professors and adjuncts are LIBs. So...Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
You’ll never see a slowing in tuition increases as long as essentially unlimited tax subsidized funding is available to students.
“Big Education” is one of the pillars of Democrat funding.
The story is written so opaquely as to make it impossible to know.
All I know is that my institution for decades has deliberately capped the number of sections a sessional lecturer may teach at two sections a semester(paying now $4000 per class) PRECISELY in order to make it clear that they are not even to be considered as half-time employees and thus not eligible for fringe benefits and also not for unemployment. It’s strictly a contract-work situation.
Some non-tenure-track full-time teachers are paid a full (if very low) salary that includes benefits. They teach 4 sections a semester but also have some service (committee work). For that reason, 2 sections cannot be called 1/2 of a full-time load.
But this article’s intent is to obfuscate.
cry me a river. socialist professors are fat and lazy and they don’t do any work anyway. serves them right.
I’m not a professor. I am just staff... got it?
then why would you choose to work in such a nasty place with all those disgusting people? you have no one to blame but yourself.
Well, the job market is SO wonderful I AM looking to move elsewhere.
The Obamacare fiasco is turning what was a good and secure job into something VERY problematic.
Maybe that will help to to comprehend properly
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