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He’s mostly right, they’re mostly wrong, IMHO.
A very astute perception, indeed.
Their primary function is to be paid to do as little as possible.
LOL. Please, stop, I'm laughing so hard I can't breathe. When teaching looks easy, its because its easy. An no professor I ever had worked even 40 hours a week, unless you count perv-ing on the young female students under the guise of mentoring them "working."
Sir Scott Walker, Dragon Slayer...Striking at the belly of the beast.
Scott Walker lives rent free in so many Liberal heads, LOL!
Our University was found to be sitting on untold hundreds of MILLIONS stashed away for who knows what. They can absorb this hit.
I personally WITNESSED a famous author giving a check of $10 million to the University, and they just got $100 million from friends of Bill & what’s her name Gates!
Now, get back to work you slackers! Diamond Jim Doyle was about to lay about 20,000 of you OFF to balance our budget. Governor Walker SAVED YOUR JOBS!
But, they’ll never say Thank You. You can count on that!
Oh, boo-hoo! Honestly... I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a group of employees as prone to whining, self-pity, and self-inflation (not to mention inattentive and rude as audience members) as educators... and I’m speaking as a teacher who’s teaching at the high school level, and who’s taught at the college level!
Calling most teachers, “educators” is like calling most elite, “elite”.
If Walker really wants to hoist them by their collective petards, he should survey the majors offered by the universities, then compare them with the numbers of graduates, with that major, employed in that area of study after one year.
At the top of the list will be majors like nursing, and at the bottom majors like ethnic and gender studies, who likely place zero students in major related jobs.
Then Walker should propose to the state legislature that since these majors are not getting employment for the students, that they should no longer receive state subsidies. And further, students should be prohibited from using loan money to take these subjects.
After that, when the faculty is now wearing sackcloth, and rubbed ashes on their foreheads in morning, Walker can drop the other shoe: the elimination of indoctrination and frivolous courses entirely.
“competing for grants” => providing “academic support” for the anti-Christ, pro-government agenda of the left.
If your study or your conclusions don’t support this agenda, you ain’t gettin’ the grant.
If the universities want to look for opportunities to save money, they can start by getting rid of their Gender Studies and Critical Race Theory departments.
Getting rid of the indoctrination centers known as Political “Science” departments would be a move in the right direction as well.
Walker has it right. My wife is an adjunct instructor at our local State University. She gets paid by the “contact” hour and fills out an hourly timesheet - like many in the real world. She works very hard. There is no extra pay for preparation or grading students’ written work. Nor is she paid based on the revenue she generates: She is a popular and effective teacher and easily has the largest student load. All her colleagues dream about becoming full time faculty so they can earn more, work less and receive all kinds of benefits. Walker has it right. Prof. Elizabeth Warren is a perfect example of the exploitation that masquerades as higher education: Harvard paid her $350K for teaching one course!!
Academia is a partially closed system that survives only because the needed resources are provided from the outside. The institutions and structures exist solely to compete for those resources. Virtually all of the people involved are leftwing fruitloops, so the result is predictable: pre-1990 Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea. It will fail. Even the schools and disciplines that teach useful things will fail because the students don’t know how to think. I am horrified by the attempts at logic that I see from younger people; people with degrees in things that aren’t Gender Studies. In the odd case where their thinking might possibly be clear, their writing is so poor that it’s hard to tell. They could be right, but nobody (including them) would know why. The Left won it’s long march through the institutions, and now it’s just a matter of waiting for it to all fall down.
Scott Walker is trying to make me love him. It’s working.
I did my undergrad work in Chemical Engineering at Cornell in the early 80s.
We had one professor that was very popular, Dr. Cocomo. He was available for help at most hours. Other professors in ChemE had few or very limited hours for help; that role was farmed out to teaching assistants (mostly graduate students with heavy Indian accents).
Dr. Cocomo was fired because he didn’t bring in enough grant money and didn’t conduct enough research.
A great teacher. But he didn’t fit the model of a researcher. This matches the description in the article.
and their penchant to hire foreign graduate assistants rather than American who speak a language their students understand. My daughter who graduated for a state university 30 years ago said that almost all graduate assistants teaching the lab courses were foreign with poor English skills. She got through those lab courses, not with the paid lab instructors teachings, but with the help of other students and text book.
Most of Academia has morphed into one of the biggest scams in human history.
Trillions of dollars, flushed down the toilet and into pseudo"studies" and into the purses of corrupt know nothings.
They have extorted this money, and the day of reckoning that is coming with our economic collapse is partially their fault.