"It is a state university. I'm starting to think you don't understand what a state university is. It is a public institution. The employees are public employees. Yes, the state is in charge. It has nothing to do with left or right leaning anything. That's how public colleges and universities work."
Maybe I don't understand or maybe you are intentionally ignoring the point. Let me rephrase. Should public institutions have a model they follow in terms of budget, money, projected growth, disaster planning, etc? You know, kind of like a business model? Or should they just stick their hand out and keep asking for more while ignoring inflow and outflow of money and then blame someone else when the money starts running out while sticking it to the students? Oregon's money issues don't sound too different from many other states. And while the amount of money given to the public education system may have gone down (by percentage - I doubt by amount), it looks like the colleges failed to compensate by adjusting their budgets. Now, here is where it gets interesting. If the percentage did indeed decrease, why? I'd say because spending on social programs has exploded. Basically, you can't everything. Something is going to benefit at the expense of something else. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352075 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
