Posted on 05/05/2024 9:34:12 AM PDT by grundle
Bill Maher ridiculous number of college administrators!!!
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He has supported all that he now criticizes. Even worse he still stands with those who promote this nonsense. He continues to rail against us.
No one should keep giving him an atta boy on the few occasions he gets something right.
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Maher is leftist fool and a rat. This BS reminds of when the ACLU takes on an occasional conservative client so they can claim legitimacy
College could cut over 50 percent of its staff right today.
Colleges staff themselves in the image of government, their keeper and God.
This is why universities are unaffordable. Many thousands of professors with multimillion-dollar retirement pensions.
A 62-year old friend in California, decided to go to law school, in order to figure out, how to defeat the board of education.
Motivation: The local school system administration had 5 vice-presidents.
Yet, this friend managed to stir up enough resistance to the board of ed., that he skipped law school.
Yes, and he’s not the first to bring this up. He’s just getting it out into pop culture conversations- for a day. Jordan Peterson has been railing about this for a few years but even he isn’t the first. At Peterson’s university, he teaches graduate students so they need a lot more face time with professors to complete their dissertations and explore deep topics and learn advanced skills. Over the years students and the administrators have doubled, but the professorships have stayed the same. They have asked these profs to take on double the students. The profs grudgingly go along but Peterson begged his department to try to put a stop to it. They cannot give a quality education and skills training to that many people; it’s a disservice to the kids and to their future patients, and to the professors! We’re not talking “psychology 101”, these are the kids who are close to getting their PhD and becoming licensed therapists. He demanded that if the university wants to double its enrollment they need to double the teaching staff. The university told him they don’t have the budget for that. He replied that they need to fire more administrators to make the budget. They are just bureaucrats. High paid paper pushers. They are there to coddle the kids, not teach them how to live in and get around in the real world. It’s actually a disservice to the kids because they leave with an attitude and expectation of how the real world works and how people interact, probably a main reason why there are so many snowflakes.
It’s like government. I had a lady friend decades ago. Great person. She got an advanced degree from a top university and was immediately hired by a big state. When she showed up for work she learned they hired 8 others, too. And for a year they had no work to do. Literally nothing. Finally the group got together and asked the boss “why did you hire us if there is no work?” He flat admitted “we had extra money in the budget and if we didn’t spend it they would have cut our budget”. So they hired 9 more people just to create the illusion they needed increased funding. It’s like departmental rivalry who can get the biggest budget increase from the legislature. This was 30 years ago. It’s probably the same thing only exponentially worse now. And at the university they want 5000 more students, well then all these departments need 2500 more administrators. But not 500 new teachers. The teachers are there just to attract the students and increase the budget for the bureaucrats.
It’s called “Featherbedding”. The Communists were notorious for doing this so they could claim they had no unemployment.
Hence the saying, “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.”
Mashers is a true opportunist!
He waits until the crowd gets riled by any issue then jumps ahead of it as if he was the originator of the idea.
A vapid showboater!
Isn’t Barbra Streisand ,Spielberg and the very powerful rich and famous HELLywood POS along with the majority of those SOB’s running lawfare mainly Jewish? These evil demonic POS Muslim will be coming for these stupid stupid multi millionaire Jews who think they are safe from the hands of these goat f***er! They better think deep and hard what the German Nazis did to all the wealthy Jews in Germany….they too will not be spared! All of this brings to mind the snake story Trump keeps talking about… but instead of a bite the snake is going to devour the jewish folk whole!
“This is why universities are unaffordable. Many thousands of professors with multimillion-dollar retirement pensions.”
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And each one of these bureaucrat have a office decorated like a CEO of a major corporation and a salary and retirement plan even minor royalty would envy!
That’s why they love foreign students, they pay full freight.
“This was 30 years ago. It’s probably the same thing only exponentially worse now. And at the university they want 5000 more students, well then all these departments need 2500 more administrators. But not 500 new teachers. The teachers are there just to attract the students and increase the budget for the bureaucrats.”
I was exposed to this college thievery logic 20+ years ago.
My company offered an incredible early retirement package with lifetime health care for myself and my wife. So I took it and never looked back.
Our accountant recommended no salary work for the first year as my former company offered basically a full year’s salary and full health benefits and then a pension for the rest of my life.
So I fished and hunted and traveled for a year and drove my wife nuts.
I had an MBA and could see conducting focus groups being a good way to work part time. I connected with a management advisement group and conducted focus groups with future customers and current customers. I did that for 2-3 days per week for about 10 years.
Before I was hired for the focus groups, a couple of friends at the local college pleaded with me to become an associate
professor at the local college. So I interviewed with an MBA
I was offered a position which was basically for 6 hours a week, (2 three hour courses a semester). At first, I would have about 6 students per class while basically getting paid for being a full professor, a MBA not a PhD.
In the meantime,the local college kept upping their offerings.
Which I turned down, several times. I still received several job offers to be a professor with only an MBA.
The college was really in the business of creating courses, hiring non professors to lecture and then hire more supervisors, aka Asst. Deans.
What are Republicans doing to stop taxpayer funding from being abused?
Ridiculous number of college administrators that support Terrorists and they are funded by Soros
This is part of the reason.
The other part, which I think is really the prime issue, is the availability of gubmint (taxpayer) money.
In GA we have the HOPE scholarship. At first it paid for everything IIRC. But, as with all gubmint programs, it had a negative impact: grade inflation.
Teachers in HS were under pressure to give As so Susie, Tinisha and Jomeka could get into college for free. Problem is they weren't qualified academically for college.
Had a friend as a comptroller at a college. Told me the bulk of students were in remedial classes just to get caught up so they might pass a regular freshmen level class. All covered by the "scholarship".
By the sophomore year over half had flunked out. Wasted money.
Now, because the program is inundated with unqualified students the scholly was cut back and some of the requirements changed.
Want to make college more affordable? Get gubmint out of the financing of college.
Maher discussed the current wave of pro-Palestinian protests, suggesting that those who are passionate about social justice should also focus on issues like the subjugation of women in many countries, hunger in North Korea, China’s human rights violations, and the persecution of gays in Burundi.
He questioned, “Are you really speaking truth to power, or do you think you look cool in a keffiyeh?”
He continued, “Which is really just the new Che Gue t-shirt another historical figure you never researched and so think is a hero but was actually a sadistic racist monster fighting for communism the worst form of government ever”.
because it’s part of the liburl elitists full employment program...
“What are Republicans doing to stop taxpayer funding from being abused?
There are few Republicans. There are few Democrats.
Republicrats and Dempublicans do all the heavy lifting.
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