Higher Education

Rearranging the deck chairs to save money is not the answer. Overtime college presidents are going to have to face the reality that the way to save money is to cut administration costs which will require downsizing the number of vice presidents and assistances to vice presidents. Cutting director positions which don’t require the same huge salaries as vice presidents and then turning around and hiring a new assistance to a vice president does nothing to solve the issue of a top heavy overpaid Wall Street CEO Style Administration. Cutting positions only to move the individuals to other areas also fails to cut cost in the long run. A certain college president in this state is clearly living in a fantasy world that has nothing to do with main street reality.

Not replacing instructional staff and reducing the number of instructional support staff also does not match with the goal of increasing the quality of a college student’s education. Cutting back on equipment and supplies for labs which are uses by college students may save the college money but does very little to help low income college students during hard economic times. Increasing the number of students in the classroom clearly does not match the mission statement of helping the students but then again that would have to first be the mission statement.

If anyone should be facing pay cuts it should be the overpaid Wall Street CEO Style Educational Administration in this state. There comes a time when the taxpayers simple cannot afford them any longer and that time is fast approaching.