A reality check for UC faculty, staff — and parents
UC students and faculty need to focus on how to re-engineer their institution. They need to come up with intelligent ways to reduce costs. Professors, administrators and staff will have to be paid less. Their numbers will have to be reduced. Students and their parents will pay more in tuition. Ouch. The quality of instruction at UC is high. Could I suggest that faculty use their unpaid furlough days to provide free instruction to a group that desperately requires remedial education? They could provide seminars in basic mathematics, accounting, management, political science, and economics to the members of the state Legislature. If they could educate this group, it would go a long way toward solving California’s budget problems.
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by John Mensinger, The Modesto Bee.