[quote=livinincali]The budgets are tight because the schools have spent too much money on things that aren’t all that useful for educating students. Everybody says the problem is state funding went down but when you look at the actual numbers, per student spending by the state is pretty close to the same as it was 10 years ago. Alright so let’s factor in salary increases for the educators of 50% over the past 10 years if that. So UC schools should be costing about 50% more maybe even 75% more than they did 10-15 years ago, but instead they cost 300-400% more. Where is all that money going. It’s going into more administrators, more glitzy buildings, more things that do little to nothing to provide an education.[/quote]
Except that they’ve been moving more and more toward using adjunct/part-time professors who barely make enough to get by and are usually entitled to no additional benefits (health, pension, etc.). It’s hard to believe that the universities are paying much more today than they were ~20+ years ago, at least where the instructors are concerned.
I’d like to know more about where the money is going, too, as the notion that they are running out of money just makes no sense, IMO. Yes, state/outside funding is down, overall, and that does make a difference, but the purported extent of the budget problems still doesn’t make any sense.
