Posted on 11/17/2012 9:33:30 PM PST by chessplayer
Faculty at fourteen Pennsylvania state universities voted Friday to authorize a strike if contract negotiations fail to reach an agreement in coming weeks.
No one is on strike yet, but professors and coaches voted overwhelmingly that the union should be allowed to call one if progress is not made. Of the 6,000 ballots cast, 95 percent voted to authorize a walkout.
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Shut it down. For a couple of years. Like the stupid NHL.
wait, professors are in a union?
Shut it down
I predict the NHL is about to become the KHL North American Division.
The students eyes will see all the education they will ever need. Let them strike, walk out.
Aaup
Wonder where all the taxpayer student loan money is ending up? (including administrators, new facilities, etc.,)
Let them strike and shut down the university. It will save the students from leftist propaganda and indoctrination, as well as the fact that they won’t learn anything useful in terms of getting a job.
Oh, by the way, there aren’t any jobs out there for them anyway. Might as well save papa’s hard-earned money, come back and live at home (saving $10-25,000 a year), and start looking for a job.
By 2014, they will all be conservatives, if not Republicans (if the GOP is still around).
Lots of key Democrat Senate seats up in 2014. Obama’s biggest nightmare is losing the Senate, besides his school transcripts being found.
Just go “Hostess” on their ass. Go into Bankruptcy and invalidate ALL pensions.
That’s the “little secret” the children don’t understand.
It’s fo’ de chirens.....
About a decade ago, a full time university professor in one of the PA state universities had to teach a minimum of three courses in spring and fall semester and be available for five hours per week of office hours. For that level of effort, they were paid something in the low 40k range.
In other words, for thirty two weeks each year (two sixteen week semesters), a prof had to teach three courses (three hours a week for each course, adding up to nine hours in the classroom) and five additional hours of sitting in their office to draw a full time salary. Fourteen hours a week, eight months a year. Approximately 450 hours a year for 40k, or about 90 bucks an hour. Some professors did more, some enthusiastically volunteered numerous additional hours for mentoring and advising, but a non-trivial portion of the faculty did the bare minimum. Sure there is class prep and all that jazz, but in many courses, once a lesson plan and exam format is developed, there’s no need to put in additional effort, and the cottage industry of back tests and note banks prove that PhDs are able to be just as lazy as their students.
I learned all this the last time the PA state university professors threatened to strike. I’m sure the numbers didn’t shift out of the professors’ favor since then.
Bloomsburg University
California University of Pennsylvania
Cheyney University
Clarion University
East Stroudsburg University
Edinboro University
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Kutztown University
Lock Haven University
Mansfield University
Millersville University
Shippensburg University
Slippery Rock University
West Chester University
Full professors make over $100,000 for 9 mos. teaching with VERY generous bennies.
The governor should offer online classes, developed at other uniersities if need be. Then let the walkout happen. If students can get an education online without the hassel, then it benefits the state to close down some of the programs.
I actually was a professor at one of these for a few years. Felt guilty taking my paycheck as full time meant that I performed class instruction 10 hrs per week, 28 weeks per year. (2.5 hrs per class X 4 classes per week) My office hours were between my classes.
My last year there, they rearranged my schedule so I only worked Tuesday and Thursday (yes, I still was full time.) Didn’t even set foot on campus MWF. Unfortunately, my teaching schedule conflicted with court appearances for clients which was far more lucrative.
There was absolutely no pressure to publish or perform research at these institutions and the pay was much higher than most prestigious private universities.
I often joked that after working as a professor for the state for the state, I would never get a real job!!!
By the way, after you teach a subject one semester, there is very little prep time for class, and with computers doing much of the work, even exam grading is a piece of cake.
Wait, professors NEED a union?
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