Posted on 04/02/2025 8:25:52 AM PDT by Twotone
There's your first clue...
and the second clue is that they're punishing him for simply asking...
Why can’t they put the name of the university in the title? Is it a secret?
(Brown University’s student body in the fall of 2022 consisted of 11,189 students)
Tuition set currently at $68k a year.
If you laid off half the 3.8k administrators....you could probably bring tuition down to $45.
3,805 administrators?
Too many chiefs and not enough Indians................
Yep and yep.
University staff happens to be the farm teams of the Beltway bureaucrats. Clinton started filling the college campuses with former loyalists put out to pasture with a purpose. Their presence inside university administrations all but guaranteed a steady supply of freshmen government agency bureaucrats before the best Marxists get a gig in the private sector. 73% of Yale, Harvard, Brown, university graduates move into government or government funded NGO jobs. It is their duty to maintain that cycle.
Back of the envelope estimate:
3,805 / 2 Administrators = 1,902.5 = 1,902 (50% layoff)
Cost per Administrator = $50,000 * 1.3 (accounting for benefits) = $65,000
1,902 * $65,000 = $123,630,000
$123,630,000 / 11,189 Students = $11,049.24 per Student savings
Now the school is investigating him for inflicting “Emotional/Psychological Harm” on the staff
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If asking people who are getting paid to describe what they actually do for their paycheck/salary is considered “emotional harm”, we truly are screwed in this country.
The sophomore is pursuing classic Alinsky tactics—with commentary from this website...
https://sliwainsights.com/saul-alinskys-12-rules-for-radicals/
Rule 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety, and uncertainty.
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.” Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists’ minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
According to the article, it’s a lot more than that.
*** Brown charges students $93,064 per year in tuition alone, making it the second-most expensive in the nation.***
Someone is wrong, but having said that, both are too much.
(RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy.)
Hehehe......
BTTT
3,805 administrators is a reason to look deeper
According to Wikipedia, Brown has 10,737 students and an academic staff of 848. So either the numbers are incorrect or Brown has an awfully big staff of administrators, probably most of them are DEI hires.
My brother once stepped on a bees nest and it was awful for him.
Holy guacamole. When did we become such a nation of whining cupcakes?
Maybe Brown University should get a subtle hint from the Trump administration. It would be just as easy to cut federal funds to Brown as it was to Columbia.
Don’t mess with the gravy train.
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