sobering thoughts regarding the defunding of American higher education: "universities often defend their use of adjuncts – which are now 75% of all professors in the country — claiming that they have no choice but to hire adjuncts, as a “cost saving measure” in an increasingly defunded university. What they don’t say ... is that they have not saved money by hiring adjuncts — they have reduced faculty salaries, security and power. The money wasn’t saved, because it was simply re-allocated to administrative salaries, coach salaries and outrageous university president salaries. There has been a redistribution of funds away from those who actually teach, the scholars – and therefore away from the students’ education itself — and into these administrative and executive salaries, sports costs — and the expanded use of “consultants”, PR and marketing firms, law firms. " read on at: junctrebellion.wordpress/2012/08/12/how-the-american-university-was-killed-in-five-easy-steps/
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:21:12 +0000
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