Posted on 07/05/2013 7:45:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
LOLOLOLOL! My mother used to send me a subscription to the Atlantic. I used to remove my name and dump them at the Dr’s office. hen I though about a little deeper and decided that I did not want to corrupt the minds of sick people. Now, I just dump them into the garbage.
So in reality colleges should charge English majors more.
The study of English is a perfectly honorable pursuit. It’s also a hard major if you have a department that teaches it properly.
Engineering textbooks cost $100-$350, each
English textbooks cost $19.95
A Philosophy major is a great prep for Law school. So is English.
Reduce the salaries of non-engineering professors, and then we can talk about reducing costs for non-engineering degrees.
They do. It's called a low wage and it is paid until they get smarter.
Even better; let us take the STEM courses and skip all the other worthless crap.
Salaries vary by field. They are not paid the same.
Average Faculty Salaries by Field and Rank at 4-Year Colleges and Universities, 2010-11
http://chronicle.com/article/Average-Faculty-Salaries-by/126586/
I’m thinking “The Sewage Lagoon” would be a better name for it.
And don’t forget to pay the departmental professors by the same formula.
Other way around.
Should gouge th4e dopes who want to waste four years on worthless degrees.
If anything, they should charge English majors more than Engineering majors. Engineering majors are going to be useful members of society while English majors have a sense of superiority baked into them, study literature through anachronistic filters of political correctness and belittle as “trade school” those courses that are designed to teach marketable skills.
Why should the hard workers subsidize a self-elected leisure class?
As a history major, I’ve actually voted nay at my alma mater whenever this proposal came up. I believe that by subsidizing more useful degrees, we can encourage more folks to do them. I’m ok with paying more if it means we can better control costs for critical degrees.
I propose that faculty compensation be linked to the earnings of the average graduate of their respective programs.
Engineering students will migrate to dedicated engineering schools to get a quality education, rather than attending a place run by liberal arts subjective types.
One of our daughters chose Embry-Riddle, a university little heard of outside the aviation community. However, Embry-Riddle has a world-wide reputation in aviation. The higher private school tuition she paid has more that proved its worth by opening doors in industry and at NASA.
Our other three kids all graduated from nationally renowned universities and have done well in life. However, Embry-Riddle is the place which most impressed me as an institution of learning, HIGHER learning.
In related news, Georgia Tech has instituted an affordable, on-line masters program in computer science. http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=212951
Good engineering schools will develop efficient quality programs which meet the educational & financial needs of students & industry.
Objective standards & solutions, not the subjective liberal arts garbage.
“On time, above spec and under budget” should be their motto.
What makes you think they are not? How else could they hire anyone?
Average Faculty Salaries by Field and Rank at 4-Year Colleges and Universities, 2010-11
http://chronicle.com/article/Average-Faculty-Salaries-by/126586/
Nearly every Engineering Professor I saw in my college had first worked in his field. Nearly all of them were registered PEs.
I don't see how a few college could possibly do this when their competition is not.
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