angryThe purpose of a university is -- or should be -- to educate students, not to enrich administrators. Here's a local example of someone hogging resources in a way that harms many other people and undercuts the whole point of the institution. I think such selfish parasitical behavior is a disgrace, and that a society which applauds it is dysfunctional.
If you have any dealings with the University of Illinois at all, the
strike beginning Monday of the SEIU union may affect you. You may have
to decide if you want to cross a picket line.If you are invited to an informational meeting, I highly recommend
that you take the time to go.-- karen medina
Who will be striking?
SEIU Local 73 Chapter 119 is preparing for a strike at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
More than 800 workers.
- Stagehands
- Building Service Workers
- Food Service WorkersWho did get raises?
There was a 37.5% raise for University President Michael Hogan and
other exorbitant raises for top administrators.How long have they been negotiating?
- negotiating for 8 months and asked for a federal mediator for 2 months
The University offered:
- a wage freeze
- higher parking fees
- a $200 signing bonus
- a one year increase of less than two percent
April 15 2011, 01:28:01 UTC 10 years ago
Yes...
April 15 2011, 02:23:02 UTC 10 years ago
Re: Yes...
April 15 2011, 13:06:18 UTC 10 years ago
Even if it begins with simply keeping hooligans out of the garden,
power, once weilded, desires to sustain itself and grow,
and the gardener realizes that if he controled the whole village,
his garden would be all that much more safe,
and the habit of reinforcing one's position is established.
The threat posed by the neighboring village is met
by an alliance with a third village,
which becomes the next threat precipitating the next alliance,
and before he retires, the simple gardener has become an emperor,
and must now deal with internal threats to his vast garden.
Re: Yes...
April 15 2011, 16:34:56 UTC 10 years ago
This is true in general...
>>Even if it begins with simply keeping hooligans out of the garden,
power, once weilded, desires to sustain itself and grow,
and the gardener realizes that if he controled the whole village,
his garden would be all that much more safe,<<
... but I find the half-parallels hilarious.
My favorite evil character is Kovid, a warlord-wizard. He's a scholar at heart. The world around him was rather a mess. What he really wanted was for people to stop trampling his onions. Eventually he got fed up with that, and went and dealt with the bandits himself. So then his garden was relatively safe.
The village, not so much, and that's where he bought a lot of his supplies and hired for necessary services. Presently the villagers begged him for protection. Grumbling, he dealt with their bandit problem too.
>>The threat posed by the neighboring village is met
by an alliance with a third village,
which becomes the next threat precipitating the next alliance,<<
He wound up having to take over the world just to keep the mayhem down to a semi-tolerable level. Raids, wars, spells, alliances, all kinds of stuff.
>>and before he retires, the simple gardener has become an emperor,
and must now deal with internal threats to his vast garden.<<
And then he turned to his favorite general and said, "Here. You take care of this stuff. Keep it quiet." Whereupon he went back to his tower and his books and his little garden, grumbling about how long it had taken.
The only power that ever really interested him was the power of knowledge and magic. Political power was just an end to a means. And Kovid's stance on that ethical issue has always been: "Ends? Means? What do I care of ends and means? Justifications are for fops and philosophers."
He's kind of crazy, but I love him to pieces.
Re: Yes...
April 15 2011, 16:42:32 UTC 10 years ago
Consider it a late birthday present.
:)
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Thank you!
April 15 2011, 02:30:10 UTC 10 years ago
April 15 2011, 06:14:29 UTC 10 years ago
Any raise for a University President must be approved by the Board of Trustees.
The Trustees in their own turn are appointed by the Governor of their state and the state legislature.
It's a really good idea to know who's on the board of trustees of all the schools in your area AND how they got there (because you might need to get them fired someday).
"There was a 37.5% raise for University President Michael Hogan and
other exorbitant raises for top administrators."
Something of this sort has happened at many of the colleges and universities we have friends at and it is becoming more and more common all the time.
:|
April 15 2011, 12:57:26 UTC 10 years ago
even when their boards are appointed by the governor,
or elected by popular vote.
April 15 2011, 17:02:53 UTC 10 years ago
It's a lot easier to get rid of a Trustee than it is to get rid of a College President and sometimes that's all it takes...
;)
April 15 2011, 17:03:34 UTC 10 years ago