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Your State University Doesn't Want You
theodp writes "According to a new survey of college admissions directors by Inside Higher Ed, the admissions strategy judged most important is the recruitment of more out-of-state and international students, who can pay significantly more at public institutions. Ten percent of those surveyed also reported admitting full-pay students with lower grades and test scores than other admitted applicants, and a majority of schools either use or plan to use controversial commission-paid agents to recruit foreign students (commission-based recruitment is barred in the U.S.). 'This isn't about globalization or increased educational diversity,' asserts USC's Jerome A. Lucido. 'They need the money.' So, should employees of a public university where the President's annual compensation exceeds $1 million receive a full state-funded pension for educating 16,000+ out-of-state students?"
You're just a Republican thief. Public union pensions, like any pensions, are paid for by the workers. They put off collecting a significant part of their pay for their work while they're working, in exchange for getting it back with some interest later when they can't work anymore. They loan the money to the government, or to their private employer.
Most Americans collect Social Security to base funding their retirements, the safest way to finance it. But you Republican thieves are working to steal that, too.
The problem with the system is that you Republicans insisted on spending the $TRILLIONS workers loaned our government on fraud wars instead of productive investment in Americans. But you Republicans want more of the wars, but none of the investment in Americans. That's the "old school" that is burning down around us.
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make install -not war
In other words, it's wasted.
Universities need to be reminded of what their primary mission is. State Universities need to be reminded of who pays their bills and who their primary admissions base should come from.
These high profile "professors" who are at the universities need to either go somewhere that does pure research or go actually teach some classes...and not just 1 or 2 graduate level courses a semester.
It is inappropriate that students and their families be saddled with the cost of supporting full time researchers. If you want the government to support it, fine, make your case in the stat legislature or congress. But separate it from the universities so that some poor sap from podunk working nights to put himself through college isn't subsidizing some Nobel Prize winner wanna be.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Welcome to the scenario. The Redneck Retard fringe that runs Texas, nominally associated with the Republicans (also majorly associated with the Tea Party lunatic fringe) hates education.
The more educated people are, the less likely they have the inbred racist hatred of Brown People that can be played on in a general election (if you don't believe it is a factor, listen to rightwing retard talk radio for 5 minutes and see how often they come back to "omg immigration them brown spanish speakin ferners iz takin over ur state and takin ur jerbz!").
Chopping away at public education funding is the start. They're working on trying to eliminate public education entirely, ever since the Supreme court ruled that these assholes can't deny a kid an education on account of having the wrong color skin.