Nice Squirrel
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Bernie Sanders's Charming, Perfectly Awful Plan to Save Higher Education
Chronicle link: http://chronicle.com/article/Bernie-Sanderss-Charming/231387/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
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I agree, as written the plan is too dependent on tenured track faculty and destroys student support services.
Chronicle link: http://chronicle.com/article/Bernie-Sanderss-Charming/231387/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
ShareThis link: https://shar.es/1q98SD
His ideas are most important for how they might end up moving the boundaries of mainstream political culture.
The Chronicle of Higher Education said:States would have to promise that, within five years, "not less than 75 percent of instruction at public institutions of higher education in the State is provided by tenured or tenure-track faculty." In addition, any funds left over after eliminating tuition could be used only for purposes such as "expanding academic course offerings to students," "increasing the number and percentage of full-time instructional faculty," providing faculty members with "supports" such as "professional development opportunities, office space, and shared governance in the institution." States would be prohibited from using the money for merit-based financial aid, "nonacademic facilities, such as student centers or stadiums," or "the salaries or benefits of school administrators."
In other words, states would be required to embrace and the federal government would be obligated to enforce a professor-centered vision of how to operate a university: tenure for everyone, nice offices all around, and the administrators and coaches can go pound sand. It’s as if Bernie Sanders looked in the mirror, regarded his rumpled, redistributionist self, and said, "What legislation would most please the people who look and think the most like me?"
I agree, as written the plan is too dependent on tenured track faculty and destroys student support services.