I'm going out on a limb and saying, no cuts to the football program.

AND it gives a lot of money to women’s sports. I think many forget both of these:

The Birchers winning is not a good thing. They don't oppose education except when POC are getting it. Fact.

University.


https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2022/09/15/college-faculty-salary-cuts-payroll-best-paid.amp.html


You were saying?

I’m curious if other higher Ed institutions in the area are cutting and have declining enrollment.

- US universities have cut 650,000 jobs, a 13 percent workforce reduction, since the onset of the pandemic, WSWS, 25 Feb. 2021. - Ed.

The Dept. of Labor published a striking report this month on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education. The report concluded that colleges and universities have cut a total of 650,000 jobs since Feb. 2020, 13% of all higher education workers. While the Dept. of Labor has not specified the types of jobs which have been cut, reports from university systems across the country demonstrate the damage done to university workers.

Thousands of positions for food service and custodial workers have been cut as on-campus services were slashed and dorms closed.

Workers engaged in student services have also been vulnerable as services were moved online & condensed. Some of the most notable targets of university layoffs & cuts have been adjunct faculty & non-tenured professors, who have been the subject of significant rounds of mass firings as to cut costs and consolidate courses. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY announced in May that it would not be renewing the contracts of 200 employees, incl. 60 full-time non-tenured faculty & an undisclosed number of adjuncts.

RPI also furloughed nearly 300 employees, mostly non-instructional staff, despite the university president making $5 million a year.

Over the summer, Northern Arizona Univ. eliminated 114 non-tenured faculty. Provided with no severance, they were told they would lose their health coverage within a week. The Univ. of Akron eliminated 178 positions, incl. 23% of its unionized full-time faculty between the start of the pandemic and summer 2020. The Univ. of Michigan laid off 173 workers, furloughed over 3,500 & enforced more than 2,300 wage reductions. One of the largest attacks on university staff came from the City Univ. of New York (CUNY) system, which laid off 2,800 adjunct faculty last summer, a quarter of CUNY’s adjunct staff..

The immediate cause of these mass job cuts is the collapse in university budgets during the pandemic. However, there is no doubt that the crisis is being utilized to push through a restructuring of higher education that will result in lower wages for professors & other school staff...https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/26/high-f26.html

West Virginia, near the bottom in education and near the top in Trump support.

Makes sense..

to devalue education. It's easy to make fun of the fact that WVU is having problems, what with that state being represented by Senator Moneychin and their dedication to fossil fuel. But it is NOT just there - as posted elsewhere in this thread, it is happening all over our country.

Look at what Governor WhiteBoots is doing in Florida! What has been happening there will take 10 to 20 years to correct - and shame on anyone that wants to be a part of THAT movement!

When we lose our basic commitment to education we begin to weaken our country. A poorly educated populace is 'ripe pickins' for those who want to rule for themselves, not the country.

read post #17.

It's these institutions spending for "campus life" in gyms, rec areas, starbucks with the administrators sucking up a huge toll, while MOST degrees don't leave a student having $100,000 in fees with a viable job.

having seen the writing on the wall and deciding to end my career on my own terms before Gee and Co could. But I obviously still have friends and former colleagues and students that I'm deeply worried about. Their careers are over, effectively. There are very few jobs in the Humanities; students aiming to do graduate studies in my field need backgrounds in foreign languages to even be admitted to most graduate schools.

Here's a good read on this: https://community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/ChronStoryWVU.pdf

and are aggressively destroying studies now. I feel for you, your colleagues, the students and all. The country is going to ruins, on this front and many others. Hell to see, but we have to still fight for honest education and democracy. Take care.