Layoffs at Syracuse, Miami U., and Boston U.

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Hi all. He who laughs, lasts!
I am from Africa and also now'm speaking English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "The best way to pass the drug test is to stop using the stuff!! If your not using they won find it."
With respect :p, Penley.

Penley of AZ 9:22PM February 22, 2009

I suggest you research these situations in more detail before making overarching statements about WHO is being cut. In most, if not all, of these layoffs, faculty have been safe; it has been university staff who get the pink slip.
The moral obligation of any business is to ensure the highest output given the resources provided by its stakeholders. Universities are increasinly being asked to operate with less public money, unlike so many other industries caught up in the year of the bail-outs. Hopefully, the outcome of that reality will result in adjustments to culture, long standing practices, and laws that contribute to the overhead you mention.

of OH 9:03AM January 16, 2009

Sorry, professor. YOU are the target. YOU can be replaced by an adjunct temp. And you probably will be---even as tuition goes higher. Colleges are like hospitals. They are overhead-spewing machines, always eager to cut the core people who do the core work.

of 4:27PM January 13, 2009