I am always up for being educated on the facts - I am happy to know the faculty
get more money, and that they have health insurance of some kind.
I wonder if that is because of the recent law courtesy of Obama that mandates
health care for everyone - because for MANY years there was no insurance of any
kind for staff or faculty. There is also no retirement for any of the faculty
according to some of the people I know in Fairfield (one of whom was a long
time staffer herself before joining Mother Divine for some years)
Don't tell me how hard it is for private universities - MIU/MUM has saved tens
of millions of dollars over the years by not paying salaries, benefits and
retirement to any of their faculty and staff. Had Girish and the Srivastavas
boys and Marshy himself not siphoned off most of those millions, the university
would be well heeled by now.
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On Sat, 2/1/14, feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 1:44 PM
I don't know the exact figure, but I am told
it is much more than it used to be. MJ is not correct in
saying there are no benefits, since the university provides
health insurance for its faculty. Obviously, if your goal in
life is to make a lot of money, you wouldn't choose to
be on MUM faculty, but not everyone has such a goal. No one
is forcing anyone to stay. If someone on faculty feels
aggrieved or resentful at what they are receiving, they are
free to leave.
I
think MUM is doing a very good job in maintaining enrollment
and keeping the university in operation. It is hard for
private colleges at the moment. Iowa Wesleyan College, a
liberal arts college that is just 23 miles down the road
from MUM, has just announced that it is closing half its
programs and laying off about 40 percent of its faculty. In
contrast, MUM just last year started up the David Lynch MA
in Film program, which was a great achievement.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <geezerfreak@...>
wrote:
Is it good? So
what is the stipend now Feste? Double, say $600? Triple?
Still way below the poverty line. What will it take for
folks to wake up and realize that the money all goes to the
Varma and Srivastava clan? Follow the money people, follow
the money!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote:
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> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
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