Brandeis Staff Might Volunteer for Pay Cut

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It seems to me unreasonable that faculty should be invited to take a pay cut, given the amounts students pay to go to Brandeis University. Here's a list:
2008-09 Undergraduate Tuition and Fees
Tuition $36,122
Mandatory Fees
Technology Fee $218
Orientation Fee (First Year Students Only) $183
Student Events Fee $64
Student Activity Fee $300
Health Services Fee $590
University Health Insurance -Student Only
(Mandatory unless private health insurance is reported by August 15, 2008, You can report private health insurance at www.brandeis.edu/health) $1,464
Housing
(A full list of housing charges is available at www.brandeis.edu/reslife)
Single $6,450
Dining (Estimated)
21-Meal Plan $4,906

oofle of CA 5:20PM December 10, 2008

Tenured people know they are (and have been) on a gravy train compared with both their students and the more recently hired adjunct faculty. OF COURSE at least some of them are going to try to be benevolent.
Heck, what's one percent----if you get to stay tenured?

of 4:17PM December 10, 2008