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In reply to the discussion: Ken Burns or Instructors? [View all]

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
2. For crying out loud
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 11:50 AM
Aug 2016

Higher ed is so expensive because overpaid administration has grown out of control. There are vice presidents, assistant vice presidents, associate vice presidents, and assistants to the associates--all making 6-figure salaries. Cuts at universities are coming from faculty ranks as more and more and more instruction is being handed to adjunct faculty who make peanuts for each course they teach.

I have had it with Rethuglican bull puckey about higher ed costs. THEY are the ones making all the money from higher ed--not the people who are actually doing the instructing.

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