Kean University's $219,000 table the center of attention

bergen record ^ | 11.23.14 | PATRICIA ALEX

[DainBramage]

Oak with a cherry veneerr? For 200 k you would think it would be solid cherry.

[dan on the right]

At least they have the table. Looks quite nice.

Where is the outrage when state schools (UCLA, SUNY Buffalo) (and private schools - but that’s their business) pay Hillary $250,000 to $300,000 (plus first class accommodations)for an 90 minute speech (drivel)?

Talk about a waste of money. Such snake oil salesmen. Just like Obama, the MSM and the low info voter don’t know and don’t care.

[TalBlack]

It helps the “anointed” to feel important as they sit around it. Priceless right?

[KSCITYBOY]

If you give them money they will spend it.

[The_Reader_David]

Not so much buildings, but administrators (more of them and much higher salaries for them) and support-staff for administrators (more secretaries, also called "administrative assistants" so they, too can be paid more). I'd bet (not very much, though I'd give odds) that the percentage of classes taught by low-paid adjunct faculty has gone up since your days at Kean, as well.

It's the same throughout academe. There's even a book about it, The Fall of the Faculty: the Rise of the All-Administrative University by a professor at Johns Hopkins.

[Lurker]

Here in IL we have the President of a local Junior College spend almost $130,000 on a wine cellar. He still has his job.

[Coleus]

Federal education dollars have made this waste and bloat possible. >>

Did you grow up in union county?

that’s for sure, even 60 Minutes did a piece on how colleges all across America waste money and spend of opulence, often for the students, some schools have day spas!

[Catmom]

Yeah, I grew up in Springfield.

Plus I read an article a few years ago about the building spree on the Jersey two year college campuses, even though their graduation rate isn’t higher than 40% at the best of them.

Kean is no top school, either.