Bureaucracies, Student Loans and Academic Frauds

Hat tip Frontpage Magazine and Miggie


Elizabeth Warren-aka Little White Dove
1/32 Cherokee Indian (Note high cheekbones)


Daniel Greenfield has a piece in Frontpage Magazine worth reading. It focuses on Elizabeth Warren, one of the biggest academic frauds in US academic history, the effects of stimulating easier student loans, the overweighted bureaucracies in universities, and professors who make big salaries but don't teach much.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-and-elizabeth-warrens-big-lie-about-student-debt/

In the interest of full disclosure since Greenfield talks about adjunct teachers, I am an adjunct teacher at UC Irvine and have been one since 1998. I do not complain since I have never even applied for a full time position. Being retired from the government and receiving a pension and health care coverage, I don't need a full-time position and don't want one. I choose to teach one class 2 hours a day with an hourly pay quarter by quarter. In addition, things are a little different teaching English as a second language in the university extension. A masters degree is all that is required.

But it is a fact that tenured professors don't teach all that much. Much of the classroom teaching in universities is done by adjuncts and even graduate assistants while the professors do their research and write books, articles and other "stuff."

It is also true that the University of California bureaucracy is top-heavy with deans, vice chancellors, asst deans, and departmental chairs, to say nothing about the worthless departments on gender studies, ethnic studies, gay, lesbian, transgender, bi-sexual studies that you see in universities. It doesn't take a genius to find where you can make cuts and bring the cost of a university education down.