At our local state college we have assistant Vice Presidents reporting to assistant Vice Presidents reporting to Associate Vice Presidents. Then there are the Presidents reporting to Chancellors and Provosts. Bloated for sure. Budget cuts never affect the royalty just the rank and file.

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At our local state college we have assistant Vice Presidents reporting to assistant Vice Presidents reporting to Associate Vice Presidents. Then there are the Presidents reporting to Chancellors and Provosts. Bloated for sure. Budget cuts never affect the royalty just the rank and file.

And none of them really do shit. The world wouldn't even notice their positions being culled.

Brainwashing is more expensive nowadays.

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Aquabird
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posted April 29, 2018 06:56 PM Hide Post
The dean at the College near here lives in a home owned by the university worth over 2mil.

This is what is now typical for a college president-- and not only a president of a big university, but even of a small college.

1) A mansion to live it, free of charge.
2) All costs-- heating, electricity-- are paid.
3) A private staff serves all meals, free of charge, and also does housekeeping and repairs, at no cost.
4) The president is provided a personal vehicle, very often a Mercedes, Lexus, Infinity-- a top tier luxury vehicle.
5) Maintenance and repairs are provided free, along with gasoline.
6)All the above are, of course, in addition to a high salary, (hundreds of thousands for small colleges-- $300,000 not unusual-- and millions-- $5,000,000 and up-- for large universities) and full medical insurance for the president and his/her family.

That is part I of the administrator scandal. Vice Presidents and Deans are often similarly provided with housing and all related costs, though usually not such lavish homes as presidents.

The other part of the scandal is the sheer number administrators. Tucker Carlson reported recently that the U of Michigan (my alma mater) currently employes 84 top administrators (holding the rank of dean or Vice President or director) who are connected exclusively with diversity/inclusion/minority studies. Each has a salary over $100,000.

That does not include all the other top administrators, which would be a number at least double those designated for diversity/inclusion/minority studies. And bear in mind that each of those administrators has an "assistant ________", and all of the assistants have--often extensive-- office staffs.

Professor salaries, adjusted for inflation, have remained about flat since the 1950s. But the scandal there is that at big universities, especially, including big public universities, professors do very little teaching. Two courses per semester is not unusual, and even one course per semester. (A mark of real distinction in the academic world is that you do no teaching at all, and just present a few public lectures per year as the "distinguished professor" of an endowed chair.)

This is so that professors can concentrate on their publication, which in many cases is just drivel nobody reads except other professors in the same field who need to cite the drivel in their own drivel.

The sad part in all this is that middle class families suffer so much to put their kids through college, in many cases racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars of debit.

I hope at some point President Trump gets around to publicly addressing this national scandal.

For a while the highest paid public employee in the state was the university football coach.

This really isn't hard to figure out.

Kids want to go to a place with nice facilities.

Kids don't understand debt. They think they can pay off $100k in debt easily.

Kids can get as much money for college as they want.

Since kids want to go to a college with really nice facilities and have infinite money to spend, colleges build crazy nice campuses and raise tuition to pay for it.

If you cap federal student loans at $10k/year, I bet you'll see the average cost of college plummet. Institutions will suddenly figure out how to educate a kid on $10k/year...not $50k/year.

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If you cap federal student loans at $10k/year, I bet you'll see the average cost of college plummet. Institutions will suddenly figure out how to educate a kid on $10k/year...not $50k/year.

I agree.

wrong thread

As one who has completed a Master's Degree, with the student loans to prove it (from a well regarded business school mind you), I feel my degree is mostly worthless to some extent. To me, it seems like a huge racket...most of the student loans are government funded. Many of the Universities are left leaning. These poor students today are being indoctrinated in these so called "learning institutions". When they come out, the are programmed to vote for the very ones who are receiving the windfall of the interest on their crushing student loan debt. The find out the real world isn't all sunshine and lollipops...all the while big brother is there saying you should be able to do anything you want, but if that fails I'm here to take care of you. And then the next wave graduates...tuition increases exponentially, increasing exponentially the interest the government receives on subsequent future loans. I'm not saying this happens to ALL graduates, but I would imagine the percentage is fairly substantial.

Then you have students like my stepdaughter. Taking undergraduate classes in the local tech school (i.e. cheaper) to then finish up at a 4 year university. BUT, she is wanting to take summer classes, apparently not eligible for student loans, and frets on how to pay them - but has probably worked a total of 5 days PART-TIME this summer (spent a week partying in the Dominican for her step sister's wedding). Kids feel everything should be handed to them - so I let my wife know that if her priorities are really to hang out with her boyfriend and post pictures on social media, she better learn how to get paid for it because I'll be damned if I will offer any financial assistance for someone who has no REAL priorities - I work too hard and sacrifice for the few dollars I make. Rolling your ass out of bed to make it to work by 10AM, only to leave at 2:30 so you can get a nap in before you spend the rest of the evening with bae doesn't leave me feeling all warm and fuzzy about committing a huge financial investment - just so you can have more summer play time.

Don't get me started on full ride scholarships for those who have no intention of ever completing a college degree.


Okay...rant over....

I recently emailed one of my almae matres that if they could afford a Dean of Diversity then they were doing well enough to get along without any of my money.