“At minimum, the profs should refuse fat paychecks and benefit packages paid for by the tax slaves of Virginia.”
For years the tax slaves of Virginia have dramatically decreased their contributions to the University of Virginia. Today they contribute less than 10% of the annual operating funds of the University. The administration and many of the school’s many wealthy alumni (who strongly support the school financially) would like to take the University private. The University’s law and graduate business schools are already privatized. Perhaps the legislature representing the tax slaves of Virginia should consider privatizing UVA, Virginia Tech, and the other state universities able to fund themselves without state support. In fact privatizing higher education might be a way for all state to relieve the burden on taxpayers.
Total privatization sounds like a fine idea.
When I was a graduate student at UVA thirty years ago, Mr. Jefferson was revered by all. My guess is that the big donors are mostly wealthy, successful old alumni from that era. Odd that they take so little interest in what their money pays for.