Posted on 08/17/2010 6:52:31 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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Don’t forget the immense number of Administration positions required to keep the scam going.
What trite BS.
If it were actually true, the best teaching instructors and professors would have salaries remotely comparable to those of the best researchers.
Overpaid academics?
When I went to state school in the late 70s, school was $750.00 a semester. And worth it. My student loan for undergrad and law school was 5G.
Because, it takes a lot of money to support people that live on another planet.
College costs so much because of loans made available to anyone who wants to go. People with their MBA’s and history degrees have driven up costs even for useful degrees.(MBA’s are great if your dad owns a business)
The main reason is Gov’t backed guaranteed student loans.
Of course when you have more demand, and deeper pockets, (students with money, ie, easy gov’t money) you are going to have more rising prices on the supply end.
Same reason why health care costs go up, too.
I'm in the sport fish industry and most fishing guides
I know have a 4 year degree in something that they never intend to use. Just went to college because they were not ready to make a decision on life.
College costs so much because the number of programs has increased dramatically over the last 40 years.
Now you have womens studies, black studies, black womens studies, gay studies, black womens gay studies.. etc.
That means you have to hire professors. That means you have to hire admin.
This crap adds millions to school budgets.
Big Pharma = EVIL
Big Health Insurance = EVIL
Big Liberal Universities = RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS
The gorram books are a rip off.
i LOVE this issue. Something I have always felt, and as a dad of three teenage kids one that is becoming very personally interesting.
I had a professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the 70’s who told us the first day of class that he was there to do research, that he hated teaching and hated students, and that he wouldn’t bother to show up most of the time. He was also my academic advisor - he advised nobody and always made a point of being out of town during registration. A grad student actually did the teaching (and did a pretty good job IIRC). The assistant dean had to sign our registration forms. Of course nothing was ever done to correct the situation.
Another one of those astute analyses of the professoriate that thinks the job description is limited to classroom teaching. According to that kind of analysis, lawyers only work when they are in a courtroom, and corporate CEOs when they are meeting with the board of directors.
I think a LOT of school scholarships are handed out at schools “costing” $50k per year. The expense to the college is less than that, so its in effect a wealth transfer mechanism.
One a**hole responding to this article on Republican-American wrote:
“There are 1010 employess earning over $100,000. (ad 25% for benefits)”
Can’t be much of a cpa if this POS thinks bennies and overhead are 25%.
Assclown obviously never had to do the math for a proposal, his numbers don’t add up and he can’t spell. 25% OH, what world do you think you live in?
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