Cartoon for December 3, 2009
Finally: Obama creates a jobs program! The catch is, you have to join the Taliban first.
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Link to the story please?
You never fail to amaze.
Beard and burka code enforcement officer?
Buddha demolition crew?
Migrant poppy harvester?
Like it. Is there a waiting list?
Yes, there is a waiting list. All the young Americans who are no longer able to afford a college education, since all colleges are now corporate research facilities and extensions of Wall Street (we can outsource everything), all those young Americans can now opt to join America's military forces and do one, two, three, four and MORE tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Imagine the prestige, the honor, the glory! While the 'ultimate warriors,' George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as is their life's practice, hide behind government-funded golden-parachute pensions, medical benefits and lifetime secret service protection.
All the young Americans who are no longer able to afford a college education
Americans cannot afford education because of the greedy "educators". Most of these so called educators work 9 hours a week and spend the rest of the time trying to get published. They are tenured, so you can never fire the worthless slobs.
What a laugh. You are way behind the times. Universities are just Big Bidness second cousins to Corporate Corpses Industrial now. Those so-called educators are actually called "associate adjunct professors", they work 160 hours a week for half pay and no benefits. Even the very few who achieve tenure after 30 years of brutal academic in-fighting cannot step a hair out of line unless they want to watch the chancellor tear up their contacts in their faces while he says "And don't try to get anything out of tenure either." Especially if the associate adjunct peon happens to be a female or person of color.
Universities, like insurance companies, keep benchfuls of lawyers on retainer to knock the piss out of anybody who the Topp SnnoopDogg don't like the smell of.
I was referring to professors; I should have been more specific. Professors do almost zero work and pawn it off to others to do their work.
working 9 hours a week? I assume you're talking about the 3-3 teaching load (3 courses a semester). Every hour of in class time requires 2-3 hours outside of class. Let's be generous and say it's 2 hours outside of class. That means 9 hours of class time equals 27 hours a week. Then tack on another 4 for "office hours" required to help students outside of class. Then tack on another 2 hours for administrative duties and meetings, and you're up to 33 hours a week.
Now for the kicker, any university offering a position with a 3-3 teaching load is LIGHTENING the teaching load because they expect research productivity. That 3-3 teaching load is AT BEST 50% of the job, making that 33 hours turn into 66 hours a week.
Now, the teaching colleges have 4-4-2 (summer classes as well) and sometimes 4-5-2 course loads. A PhD is required to teach at this level, and that's an average 7 years of your life and $60,000 in student loans, for a job that will start you out at about $45,000 a year.
So, Anon 4:16 PM, please enjoy watching the Florida-Alabama game, where Nick Saban and Urban Meyer are both getting paid MILLIONS to coach the football teams, try not to cry in your guacamole over those "greedy educators."
And the punch line? THESE are those cherished tenured jobs you're referring to. The adjunct positions only pay for IN CLASS hours, which means instructors only get paid for a third of their work, AT BEST.
The real reason education costs are skyrocketing is simple: the defunding of public institutions, forcing schools to get their funding privately. This drives them into the hands of industry, which pays for research. That requires hiring top notch researchers for whom teaching is a secondary consideration, making their teaching loads 50% so they can bring in the BIG MONEY that used to come from public funding.
So.....SHUT UP, this is what we get for refusing to pay for education. THIS IS THE MARKET WORKING, and I LOVE IT!
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