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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s high time for salaries at colleges to be cut. Too many overpaid old men on tenure. [/quote]

The pension system is breaking the colleges. Look at every bloated private college administration office. And the emeritus professors wandering the halls. Those people need to get off the payroll.[/quote]

It's not the pension system, it's the tenure and the admin system.  The emeritus usually die pretty soon after retiring.  But when colleges have 60-70% of their classes taught by either TA's or adjuncts, but still pay hefty salaries to full time professors who barely teach at all and spend all their time doing "research" and publishing junk that 90% of the time isn't useful in any sense of the word, then the students are definitely getting the shaft.  Add to that the bloated administrative offices, full of people who are paid twice what the average prof gets but whose whole job is to make powerpoints, go to meetings, and create paperwork, then you get a super high cost of education with minimal returns for students and the people doing the majority of the actual educating.  [/quote]

The professors who don't teach are expected to bring in research grants (which matters far more than tuition). The problem is that tenure leads to departments that are no longer aligned with demand. Look at Ponoma telling kids they can't choose one major while still offering majors that barely have any takers  [/quote]

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