Marshall Ramsey for December 03, 2011

This is a take on Urban Meyer’s new job.It is for 6 years I think, but still….

A big part of the 1% running college costs to the moon. They should work for minimum wage.

I have nothing against pro sports, but compared to what you and I make, the athletes are overpaid. But it’s waitresses and garbage collectors who deserve a big raise, not so much professors.

Whenever our contract comes up for negotiation (we’re unionized) I always agitate for smaller classes rather than more money, and I always lose. I can justify smaller classes on pedagogical grounds, but I just can’t justify asking for a bigger salary when I see so many people struggling to get by on a lot less than I make.

He’s only dreaming of what he’d get for coaching TABLE TENNIS! Even a JC FOOTBALL coach can do as well as his “dream”. You know football coaches, it’s all in the hands.

Am I right that you were at Harvard? I did my A.M. and Ph.D. there in the early 90s. Undergrad at Cornell.

I know what I’m paid, and it’s pretty typical of the Canadian system at any rate. We do know what people make here, because most universities are public institutions, and so the salary ranges are public knowledge. We don’t get rich, but we don’t suffer, either. I feel for the sessionals (we call them contract faculty) — they are underpaid and overworked.

I completely agree about adjuncts — or sessionals, or contract faculty. Not only is the situation bad for them, but it’s not good for the students, either.

Do we need another Occupy movement?

Can we borrow your president for a while?

Probably no one will read a post now on this rather stale thread, but that’s okay. Anyway, I suspect that there are people on the left who would have done just fine in Stalin’s Soviet Union and there are people on the right who would have done just fine in Hitler’s Germany, but that doesn’t mean that the Democrats are commies or that the Republicans are Nazis. Here’s the question, however — does the extreme left have more influence in the Democratic party than the extreme right has in the Republican Party? Or vice versa? Speaking as a weirdo leftie (but not as a Marxist), I don’t find that the Democrats are very far to the left. I will leave it to others to characterize the Republicans.

Hey look, another one of my posts exposing liberal hypocrisy and faulty reasoning was taken down.

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Why are liberals afraid of facts and truth…?

church. Time for right-thinking people to flag everything fennec posts…

My dream is to be a college professor! I could use the boost in income and the pleasure of following my aptitude!

Beautifully stated and so very true.

Indeed. Hard as they try…

Athletes in the media eye and actors and actresses from TV, movies, and commercials from Hollywood and New York stage and screen ARE OVERPAID by society’s values. But, in the hierarchy in public schools and in colleges and universities, so is the salary demands for teachers and professors with B.A.‘s, M.A’s and PhD’s. Look whose paid more—high school athletics coaches, college and university athletics coaches and directors, college and university professors of medicine and law. And administrative heads of departments and of colleges and universities and hospitals under university agreements and associations.