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: [email protected] 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.
