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If you click on "univ of California" and then "regular pay", it arranges according to highest salaries. They all are "CEO" "Exec Dir" "DIR" "Mgr" "VCR and DEAN, that is, horrible ballooning overpaid useless bureaucracy. Classroom instruction is very cheap, but hordes of bureaucrats who sit on their asses thinking of a new diversity initiative costs most money.
https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/all/
All the top salaries are universities staff. Liberals claim that they need raises all the time, yet it's the children trying to get education who get screwed at the end with high loans, and taxpayers who stuck paying high bills.
You left out constantly being added to palatial facilities and very expensive sports programs.
switching institutions for a lateral $20k pay raise
Classroom instruction is very cheapAnd most done by adjuncts who have no chance at tenure and very few if any perks. Instruction is seen as one of the very last purposes of college.
all the multimillionaire salaries are going to coachesI noticed that right off! Good grief! How many coaches do they need?
A few years ago, the U of VA President Teresa Sullivan decided to put all courses online and make them available for free (but with no credit). The Board of Visitors did not like this, and tried to have the president removed. I guess the President somehow got the wild idea that UVA was there to educate Virginians, and not just be a workfare for well paid academic staff.
In fact, the best way to cut college costs would be for all suitable courses to be online where the student can read, view, and review lectures. The lectures could be enhanced with any sort of graphic teaching tools. Tests could then be centrally proctored. For courses like English, history, geography, and others that need no labs, why not? Of course, something similar could have been done years ago using DVDs, but I do not think affordable education is on the agenda for those running universities.
Side product of this stupidity is that lower middle class people who genuinely want and need education often can not get it because it is too expensive and they might not qualify for subsidies. I am faculty and I can not change any of this. Only thing I get when I bring this up to administration is that I am not a team player followed by ignoring what I said. And I am not kicked out only because I have tenure.
In fact, the best way to cut college costs would be for all suitable courses to be online where the student can read, view, and review lectures. The lectures could be enhanced with any sort of graphic teaching tools. Tests could then be centrally proctored. For courses like English, history, geography, and others that need no labs, why not? Of course, something similar could have been done years ago using DVDs, but I do not think affordable education is on the agenda for those running universities.
In tech this has long happened. CS degrees may be for higher or mixed purposes (Electrical engineering, (bio-)Medical engineering) etc. but for 80% of the code that needs to be written out there you can self-learn without paying a dime for education. Even the bootcamps, while more practically oriented, are mostly scams. All the info you need is on the web. Universities will be mostly obsolete at some point. But you can be sure they will put up a good fight so don't count on it right now.
doing as much as possible at an inexpensive community college
finishing up in their state school system
All the top salaries are universities staff. Liberals claim that they need raises all the time, yet it's the children trying to get education who get screwed at the end with high loans, and taxpayers who stuck paying high bills.
Click on pensions:
https://transparentcalifornia.com/pensions/all/
click on "see special note" for just about everyone.
(DROP program paying 1.3Million per individual). Yep that's that nice program that lets people get paid for not working. CA madness.