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To: dennisw

You still refuse to debate the central point of my argument. You result to personal attacks and changing the topic. Here are some questions to focus your augmentative skills.

Do you not agree that there is a labor monopoly in the west coast ports? Do you think that competition will increase capacity, lower costs, and bring benefits to consumers? Do you think that we should use the force of government to prevent a new transportation corridor from being built? Do you have a vested interest in maintaining the labor monopoly on the west coast ports?

You do not demonstrate much knowledge about university faculty employment. Universities already hire many foreign faculty. There is no official certification for university faculty. If you want a tenure track position at a major research university, you need a doctorate and demonstrated research skills, typically published papers. If you want a tenure track position at a teaching university, you still need a doctorate. If you want to teach as a lecturer, you typically only need a masters degree or advanced knowledge of a subject area. Faculty positions are competitive so you need a doctorate from a recognized school, good skills, and good recommendations. Faculty members from good foreign universities do not need any certification here. Earning a doctorate can take 3 to 6 years beyond a masters degree. There is no way to expedite the process. Perhaps you are confusing faculty positions with requirements to practice medicine and law.

If you have a business model to lower the costs of university education, you should invest your time and money. University education costs desperately need lowering. If you or someone else finds a way to lower costs through usage of advanced communication costs, master professors, learning centers, and outsourced labor, I would not object. The university education establishment would probably fight hard against it but I doubt that legislators would stop an effort.


63 posted on 08/19/2007 10:16:40 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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To: businessprofessor
Do you not agree that there is a labor monopoly in the west coast ports? 

There is a labor monopoly at West Coast ports and no I'm not interested in seeing Mexican ports compete with them. We import enough Asian crap to run a huge trade deficit. We don't need more port capacity. The search for additional port capacity is a sickness

Do you think that competition will increase capacity, lower costs, and bring benefits to consumers? 

I could give a shit as long as we are running 850 billion dollar trade deficits

Do you think that we should use the force of government to prevent a new transportation corridor from being built? Do you have a vested interest in maintaining the labor monopoly on the west coast ports?

Yes. If that labor monopoly must be broken then do it by competitive forces within the United States. Don't use a foreign country to bludgeon American workers

You do not demonstrate much knowledge about university faculty employment. Universities already hire many foreign faculty. There is no official certification for university faculty. If you want a tenure track position at a major research university, you need a doctorate and demonstrated research skills, typically published papers. If you want a tenure track position at a teaching university, you still need a doctorate. If you want to teach as a lecturer, you typically only need a masters degree or advanced knowledge of a subject area. Faculty positions are competitive so you need a doctorate from a recognized school, good skills, and good recommendations. Faculty members from good foreign universities do not need any certification here. Earning a doctorate can take 3 to 6 years beyond a masters degree. There is no way to expedite the process. Perhaps you are confusing faculty positions with requirements to practice medicine and law.

If you have a business model to lower the costs of university education, you should invest your time and money. University education costs desperately need lowering. If you or someone else finds a way to lower costs through usage of advanced communication costs, master professors, learning centers, and outsourced labor, I would not object. The university education establishment would probably fight hard against it but I doubt that legislators would stop an effort.

Here I admit you know more about the university labor situation. Barriers to entry.

65 posted on 08/20/2007 7:24:45 AM PDT by dennisw
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