Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Prof making $121,563 demands tuition increase: ‘Why are prices so low?’

Prof making $121,563 demands tuition increase: ‘Why are prices so low?’ | EAGnews.org: "MADISON, Wis. – While families across Wisconsin work and struggle to fund their children’s college education, one professor at the University of Wisconsin says tuition far is too low.
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.
Levine objects to Gov. Scott Walker’s tuition freeze, which has prohibited UW leaders from passing on the exorbitant cost of administrative and faculty compensation to struggling students and their families.
“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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