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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Such blatant hypocrisy. At elite colleges the professors tend to be self-righteous about social justice & helping the downtrodden. Power to the people!! But threaten THEIR privileges and they respond like Thurston Howell III being offered a wine cooler. [/quote]

It's not about privilege.  It's a benefit/perk of the low paying jobs in academia to get a tuition break for your own kids.  Most profs/staff would be just as happy if the tuition break carries over to other schools (and it does at some universities).  They want the tuition break that they have been told is a perk of lower paying employment for years.  Same with staff----most staff in academia would get paid more outside academia.  [/quote]

This is 100% accurate. I'm a JHU staff member and have been for *mumble* years -- JHU pays for 50% of dependents' undergrad tuition at [b]any [/b]accredited school. I have been counting on it in my financial planning and would be royally screwed if that went away! My kid will probably apply to Hopkins because it's a decent fit, but I expect zero admissions boost, just the normal lottery ticket. I assume that perk is reserved for star faculty members. I'm just a middle-level cog.

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So you'd be in the exact same position as someone who is not college faculty/staff and makes the same money as you (which is the vast majority of the population)? Cry me a river.[/quote]

My friend, someone who did it exactly the same job as I do NOT at JHU would be earning a heck of a lot more money and thus be better able to save for their kid’s college.  The mythical staff-kid-admission-boost may be unfair, but the actual staff-kid-tuition-break is perfectly fair.[/quote]

Then go get that job. Most PhD students would kill to land a professor job. You can be replaced although I’m sure you think you are the cat’s meow[/quote]

Not with a PhD in accounting.  You are taken overnight - even a bad teaching prof.  Way too few PhD in accounting, with the average age around 60 - it will continue.  You have to give up a good salary as a CPA/MBA for 4 to 6 years to get it - and they drives off much of the potential supply.[/quote]

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