Posted on 03/19/2018 12:16:39 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Faced with a steep drop in student enrollment, Essex County College will eliminate 34 positions by next year as it remains under close watch -- and probation -- by its accrediting agency.
The layoffs of 20 full-time staff and elimination of 14 vacant positions will save $2.76 million, college officials said. Included on the list: A top-ranking administrator who was placed on paid leave after a vocal group of clergy called for her ouster.
Joyce Wilson Harley, vice president of administration and finance, lobbed allegations of wrongdoing against President Anthony Munroe, who in turn, accused Harley of undermining his authority. The internal infighting sunk the college into further chaos and several members of the Board of Trustees stepped down.
Harley remains on paid leave earning $205,000. She told NJ Advance Media her dismissal, effective June 1, was "pure retaliation for reporting wrongdoing."
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This needs to happen to all universities
A decades-long flow of massive debt, government aid, in our printed, fiat currency, into university has supported bloated administrations and progressive ideology.
An affirmative action faculty.
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Love the fact that the VP of Finance at a modest-sized community college pulls in a cool $200k. Nothing wrong there!
I love what happened to Mizzou and Evergreen. The silent majority votes with their feet.
Our governor has been working toward budget cuts, including cuts to the University of Nebraska system. There was an article in our newspaper’s public editorial section last week. The writer said he had worked as a professor (or tenured instructor?) at the university. He said that the average teaching load for professors was two classes at a time, which equated to six hours of classroom time per week. And many being paid into the six figures, with plenty of time off, generous benefits.
But they want more and more money, and the average taxpayer in Nebraska probably earns about 40% or less, of what the professors make, not even counting benefits and time off.
My impression is that many who work in academia think they are special and deserving of our support and special treatment, just because they are “smart”. We need to find ways to bring this situation back into reality and fairness, IMHO.
Speaking of which, anybody remember the name of the NJ CC that hired Jim McGreevy, the gay American former governor, so he could still get his state pension?
One of my best friends is a tenured prof at the U of MN. He is a conservative and he is appalled at the sense of entitlement that his liberal colleagues have. Yes, they think that because they got a PhD and teach at the U of MN that they are above the average worker and deserve even more than what they already get. And the stats that you wrote about workload and money are the same as the stats that my U of MN prof talks about.
Higher education (non-STEM) has become a scam. Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote the same thing about this situation about 20 years ago.
Six hours in class per week? for a six figure income?
I know the apologists say, that there is lesson planning time, and office hours which college teachers have, which is added work time.
I’m sure they work far less than the standard 40 hour work week.
It would be interesting to calculate an hourly rate of pay. yes I realize they aren’t paid by the hour, so it would be just an academic exercise.
But then, you wonder, how does the college justify a six figure salary for teaching two classes?
I doubt highly they have 1 class. 3-2 hour sessions are 1 class. You are hilarious though.
“I love what happened to Mizzou and Evergreen. The silent majority votes with their feet.”
Also, Mom/Dad, Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles who provide the money for their younger relatives to go college say “Hell No!”
One of my best friends is a tenured prof at the U of MN. He is a conservative and he is appalled at the sense of entitlement that his liberal colleagues have. Yes, they think that because they got a PhD and teach at the U of MN that they are above the average worker and deserve even more than what they already get. And the stats that you wrote about workload and money are the same as the stats that my U of MN prof talks about.
Higher education (non-STEM) has become a scam. Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote the same thing about this situation about 20 years ago.
Essex County. Next to Hudson County(my old home) the most corrupt county in NJ. Essex County encompasses the city of Newark so that should tell you something.
The University of Nebraska sounds like slave drivers compared to the University of Washington.
I got my master’s there back in 1994. My thesis adviser was a fully tenured PhD who never taught more than two classes a quarter, produced only 15 journal articles in thirty years, retired at a full state pension AND THEN took a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania where she carried on all the behaviors she indulged at the UW. As far as I know, she’s retired from Penn now and lives in townhouse in Philly, backrolled, no doubt, by two full pensions.
Yes, colleges and universities continue to pile on costs for students and taxpayer and never, ever cut.
They have been on the gravy train since the GI Bill following WWII raking in as many federal dollars as possible, often by fraudulent means, but there was never any oversight for those dollars and they got away with it. Fast forward to the student loan program and Pell Grants. Many millionaires have been made in academia.
And don’t forget the federal programs issuing huge grants to professors and colleges for meaningless projects - such a waste!!!
Many schools have struggled to “right-size” since the draft ended; the Vietnam War gave them masses of “students” seeking only to dodge the draft, and the “college-for-all” movement is a desperate attempt to keep the seats filled. Many schools expanded during those years, and have been shrinking ever since.
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