Colleges and universities ranging from sprawling state flagships to small liberal arts institutions are feeling the cost of their coronavirus-prompted closures.
Pandemic has âdestroyedâ rights of dying: Israeli academic
Colleges, schmolleges.
The stable genius can learn you all you knead too know.
Yup, our daughter who teaches in the Masters in Nursing program at U. of Arizona got the notice yesterday that she would have to take 39 unpaid leave days which for her amounts to an $11,000 cut in yearly income. A dream job for her to get off the floor at Banner Hospital has turned into a real budget cruncher. So many dreams laid by the wayside because of this entirely predictable virus.
I wonder how many administrators are being cut or furloughed? And what about all that construction I see? Cranes at universities and colleges are almost as frequent as students. Perhaps the universities should concentrate on students, faculty and quality education as opposed to new edifices and multimillion dollar salaries for university presidents and chancellors.
Iâm sure everyone who has been furloughed or fired appreciates that Kimberly Guilfoil and Lara Trump are still getting their $180,000 paychecks.
Itâs time to support your alma mater!
What Jerry Brown used to call the Edifice Complex.
TPM should send a reporter to cover those countries which are providing sustained, comprehensive and salary-level aid to its citizens so as to sustain the society.
To NOT do so plays in the Trumper-type arguments about âthe virusâ (and, by extension the Dems, who seem to be the most concerned about its spread).
That is a TPM dereliction
Iâd be willing to start a funding or funds for dedicated reporter beats. Like TPM is big enough (and certainly knowledgeable enough) to deserve a place in the White House press corps. Also, you see Josh is practically having to earn simultaneous PhDs in statistics, molecular genetics, epidemiology and macroeconomics, so maybe at least on science reporter and an economics reporter just to sort this all out. We seem destined to have to build a new kind of world after this. It could be that 25 years from now we have a rusting, smoggy dystopia, but it could just as well be that we continue to be on better terms with the natural world. I havenât seen such clear skies in California since the 1960s! With all this happening, it means sorting through lots of information. Duke Cunningham and Trump day in and day out makes Johnny a very dull boy.
TX public university employee here:
Fuck Fuck Fuck fuckity fuck.
Thatâs Eva Illouz.
Sheâs worth reading, and not only on this subject.
At Michigan State University - and the administrators announced last week they are taking 2-7% pay cuts (depends on salary) and the President is taking a 10% pay cut. Construction projects are being put on hold. Travel is pretty much shut down for the year for everyone. Just got off a live stream with the President and Provost - and they are stating classes will occur in the fall - though they donât know if they will be in person or on line at this time since we donât know what the status of COVID19 will be.
And they had to go and shut down Trump University.
It could have thrived at this time of national health emergency and hunger for learning how to grift.
Hey! You misspelled ânoâ!
Certainly at private universities, things are funded in a variety of ways. Buildings, for example, are often built with funds from specific individual donors â who usually restrict or condition the use of their money.
Itâs often not the case that if a building project were to be canceled, the money could be used for other things.
The underlying problem is that itâs easier to get wealthy donors to pay for something that will have their name on it â a building, an endowed chair â than to entice them into paying ordinary and anonymous salaries.
And the problem underlying that underlying problem is ⌠human nature.
Many of the administrators at Washington University in St. Louis, mentioned in the article, are taking cuts of 15-20% Iâm not sure about any of them being furloughed. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a lot of the furloughs are âon the Medical Campus, at least through the months of May, June, and July. The school is battling a combination of higher expenses related to the pandemic, and lower revenues from lower volumes. The schoolâs clinics are seeing 60% fewer patients, the letter says, and the medical school is expecting a revenue loss of $150 million through the end of the fiscal year.â
Not to argue against this at all, but: last year, I believe it was, there was a story about the U. of Kansasâ backlog of maintenance needsâin the hundreds of millions. Some of the backlog is due to underfunding from the state; but some is due to the fact that older buildings (of which KU has lots) are just more expensive to maintain, so much so that itâs actually cheaper to tear down old buildings and build new ones.
That said, though, itâs also unfortunately a basic fact (and this goes back to the point youâre making) that students are attracted to shiny, new facilities, and donors would rather pay for new buildings than for maintenance for old ones. Who gets new HVAC systems named after them, after all?
The emeriti who get paid six figures to teach one course to graduate student claques and sit on their hands otherwise should be on your list as well.
Iâm sure theyâd be happy to if someone ponied up airfare and daily expenses.