UW-Madison English Professor Caroline Levine made $121,563 in 2014-15, and presumably takes in even more now.
And she’s clearly not happy with that salary.
She announced in an op-ed recently published in the Madison Capital Times that she will be leaving the university for a job at another school, where she will be making 50 percent more.
“Businesses charge market rates for their products and services,” Levine wrote, according to RightWisconsin.com.
“Top-tier private colleges and universities right now are charging $44,000 or more in tuition each year, more than three times the rate of in-state tuition for an education at the UW-Madison, ranked in the top 50 universities around the world.
“Why are prices so low?
Because politicians have put a cap on tuition.”
How interesting to hear a UW professor suggest that the university system should operate like a business.
Not long ago UW faculty members screamed just the opposite when the Board of Regents made changes to job-protecting tenure rights, giving chancellors more power to move tenured professors out the door if the subjects they teach are no long part of the curriculum..."
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