Purely out of curiosity, what do you mean by "Waste on politically correct courses and curricula"? Which courses or curricula do you consider politically correct and a waste of resources?
Joel Abraham On Dec 30, 2011, at 8:06 AM, Robert Hamilton <roberthamil...@alc.edu> wrote: > Things we are doing now that seem to cost a lot of money are things like the > waste on accreditation. Waste on politically correct courses and curricula. > Waste on unnecessary administration to cover every little contingency that > could come up and unnecessary waste on useless fixed assets like Greek > columns, marble foyers and garbage cans made from tropical hardwoods. The > real kicker to this, IMHO, is we spend less on assets allocated towards > education itself, like say vans for field trips, lab assistants (not grad > students) for teaching situations and specialty fixed assets for basic and > meaningful courses like say organic chemistry and ecology. > > Rob Hamilton > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news on behalf of Paul > Cherubini > Sent: Tue 12/27/2011 7:29 PM > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] UC-Berkeley and other 'public Iv ies' in fiscal peril > >> The University of California at Berkeley subsists now in >> perpetual austerity. Star faculty take mandatory furloughs. >> Classes grow perceptibly larger each year. Roofs leak; >> e-mail crashes. One employee mows the entire campus. >> Wastebaskets are emptied once a week. Some >> professors lack telephones. > > If all of the above is true, then can someone please > explain why for 20+ years the annual increase in the > cost of college tuition has far outpaced the consumer > price index, heath care, energy costs, etc. > > http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?doc_id=1450 > http://tinyurl.com/6xq6hv > > Paul Cherubini > El Dorado, Calif.
