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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 10:55 AM Oct 2015

Florida College Wants to Make Professors Underbid Each Other on Salary

Source: Gawker

The higher education community is aghast today at news that no one expected to hear: a dumb idiot in an unlikely position of power has proposed a stupid regressive anti-intellectual idea—in Florida.

... Inside Higher Ed reports that the State College of Florida at Manatee-Sarasota, which last year became “the only one of 28 Florida public colleges” to do away with a tenure system for professors, now has an even brighter idea for academic excellence:

Leading the charge against continuing contracts is Carlos Beruff, a trustee since 2008 who owns a local home construction business. Beruff argued that any competitive disadvantage could be countered by offering merit pay or bonuses to high performers, and said that the U.S. was “based on the freedom of work.”

That was in September. Between then and now, Beruff was reportedly working on a second proposal that would ask potential college employees, including faculty members, to quote their fee for services on job applications. That information would then be used in the hiring decision.

As the noted philosopher of education John Dewey famously said, “Every great advance in higher learning has issued from the imagination of a right-wing Florida home developer.”

Read more: http://gawker.com/florida-college-wants-to-make-professors-underbid-each-1739592339
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Florida College Wants to Make Professors Underbid Each Other on Salary (Original Post) Newsjock Oct 2015 OP
They should all ask for 3 times the going rate. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #1
Another "new" low.. teaching jobs going to the lowest bidder. mountain grammy Oct 2015 #2
Um Munificence Oct 2015 #11
From their Board of Trustees page: Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2015 #3
Adjuncts work only if sections fill, so they compete by promising all A's and B's, etc. L. Coyote Oct 2015 #4
+1 Johonny Oct 2015 #6
Counter-proposal: The board-members underbid each other for a position on the board. DetlefK Oct 2015 #5
Want to make college more affordable? Qutzupalotl Oct 2015 #7
+1 n/t A Little Weird Oct 2015 #8
There are many colleges in which the football team Snobblevitch Oct 2015 #10
We've already allowed them to destroy K-12. The question is will Democrats stand up and liberal_at_heart Oct 2015 #9

Munificence

(493 posts)
11. Um
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:41 PM
Oct 2015

HIB Visas or Undocumented Teachers?

Is working just fine in a lot of other industries so why all the fuss now?

(sarcasm).





Gidney N Cloyd

(19,780 posts)
3. From their Board of Trustees page:
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:07 AM
Oct 2015

To reach the SCF District Board of Trustees, send an email to Board@scf.edu and it will be forwarded to the individual Trustee to whom it is addressed; or, if not addressed to an individual, it will be forwarded to the entire Board.

...in case you wish to commend Mr. Beruff on his unique genius.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
4. Adjuncts work only if sections fill, so they compete by promising all A's and B's, etc.
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:11 AM
Oct 2015

And if they work at all, they still can starve. Some systems teach with 90% adjuncts in the classrooms. That passes for education in "higher education" today.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
5. Counter-proposal: The board-members underbid each other for a position on the board.
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:12 AM
Oct 2015

I'm pretty sure we can find some people who are willing to do the job for $50,000 a year.

Qutzupalotl

(14,230 posts)
7. Want to make college more affordable?
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 01:44 PM
Oct 2015

Get rid of college athletics. No giant stadium maintenance, no inflated coach salaries, no students-as-slaves. Go to college to learn, period. If you want to play football, go pro.

I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK which college's team of slave-athletes beat which other college's team of slave-athletes, and I cannot fathom why anyone else would, other than local pride. I see no reason to fund something that ephemeral and silly on the backs of students who sincerely want to learn.

Snobblevitch

(1,958 posts)
10. There are many colleges in which the football team
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:11 PM
Oct 2015

earns enough to pay for all of the non-revenue sports, many from the women's athletic department. (Football and men's basketball and hockey pay their way, the others, not so much.)

Like it or not, college sports is a multi-billion dollar indistry and it is not going to go away.

I went to a lot of Division III football games in recent years. There are no scholarships, but good competition and school pride. (My nephew played in every single game of his college football career starting as a true creshman and started every game the last three years. So, I guess I'm biased.)

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)
9. We've already allowed them to destroy K-12. The question is will Democrats stand up and
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:06 PM
Oct 2015

say anything now that they are going after higher education? I'm guessing no.

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