Health insurance for MUM faculty has nothing to do with Obamcare. It's been in place for a long time. Certainly while I was there in the 1980s all the full-time faculty were covered by it. I don't remember even having to pay a deductible. Mind you, the 1980s was before health care costs went out of control. I do agree with you about lack of any pension plan for the faculty. They did in fact start one in the 1980s while I was there, but that was only because the accreditation team told them they should "do more" for the faculty. The pension plan was in place for a few years but was then discontinued. I don't know what the current situation is.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote: 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. -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 2/1/14, feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Missing Pundits To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto: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 mailto: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 mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > That is good to know, but I understand they still have no benefits and no retirement > -------------------------------------------- > On Sat, 2/1/14, feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com > mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 3:34 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Â > > > > > > > > > > Actually, the stipend has gone up considerably > since those days of $300 a month. > > > > ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@> > wrote: > > Tell that to the > professors who make only 300 a month and have no benefits > and no retirement. Go figure > > -------------------------------------------- > On Sat, 2/1/14, Richard J. Williams > <punditster@> > wrote: > > > > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Missing Pundits > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > > Date: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 1:58 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Â > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 1/31/2014 5:45 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: > > > > > yeah, the money was great Richie - as a sidha, I got > > $75 a month - > > > > > after FICA was taken out by the university, we sidhas > > got about 69 > > > > > bucks - the meditators got $50 before FICA. > > > > > > > > > So, all you had to do was meditate inside a golden dome for > > twenty > > > > minutes twice a day? And, you got your meals free too and > > all your > > > > utilities were paid for in your pod. What would be needing > > any money for > > > > anyway? Go figure. >
