University Bosses Beat Budget Blues With Big Bucks
December 22nd, 2007Wow! Even the Las Vegas Sun recognizes this as an abuse of taxpayers!
Each permanent campus leader has a four-year contract outlining base pay ranging from $181,220 yearly for Paul Killpatrick at Great Basin College to $406,946 yearly for David Ashley at UNLV and Milton Glick at UNR. That, plus car and housing allowances worth thousands more apiece.
Together, 50 employees of the Nevada System of Higher Education - the vice chancellors of the system and the presidents, vice presidents and provosts of seven state colleges and the Desert Research Institute - are slated to haul in more than $10 million this year.
“Sometimes the ivory tower gets too tall for some of the administrators,” Regent Steve Sisolak said.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Since when does a 15.5 percent increase instead of a 20 percent increase represent a cut? An increase, no matter how large or how small, continues to be an increase! Methinks the complainers will not shut up until they get themselves a raise!
Any doubters?
December 28th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
So a lot of higher ed administrators with a lot of alphabet after their name, a likable personality, and the right connections get to cash in on the taxpayer. This game is as old as sin, and there is no way to stop it. Our government at all levels has become a highly complicated and intertwined mass of buracracies that are not, and will never be, held accountable for their theft of public funds.
If we could ignore the reality of power and money we could fix higher eduction by simply removing all public funding! Force colleges and universities to live on their tuition and donations. Make them compete for students. Make them and their budgets accountable to the free market. Bet a whole bunch of problems with higher education would disappear very quickly, as well as a bunch of overpaid educrats.
December 29th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Where’s Mark D? Don’t have an answer for this one, eh Mark?
Jim Brown is right, we should not be funding any higher education. Jim Rogers and his pals have plenty of money. Let them contribute theirs instead of mine.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:32 am
The future of education is online. No longer will students be
held hostage by inferior educators. Only the best of the best
will be offering their teaching skills. An end to the monopolistic education union. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_on_hi_te/megauniversity_world_classroom
YEAH!!!
December 29th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Helen, As this is the Senator’s site I will not insult you. However, I will note that you should be more mature than retorting ‘your mother wear combat boots…”, as you seem to come across as a narrow minded woman who never attended a higher education facility, thus speaking of which they know not. You certainly sound very bitter.
I do not condone the level of salaries and benefits the current class of administrators have received, courtesy of the elected members of the Board of Regents. I will not vote to re-elect my regional representative to their position and I would suggest you not vote to re-elect yours.
Absolutely we should fund higher education. Does the term, “Dark Ages” resonate with you, Helen?
Have a great week.
December 29th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
It is true that traditional methods of educating are or should be ending soon. The United States spends more on education than most if not all countries, yet churns out illiterate moron after moron. One problem is that there is so much money to be made from this massive idiot machine and no shortage of PT Barnums to step up to the plate for a share.
The state should absolutely NOT fund higher education. That is simply not a state function. Jim Rodgers has a ton of money to contribute towards this venture, so if he feels like it is underfunded, please break out your checkbook Mr. Rodgers, but stay out of mine please.
I also have to laugh at the salary levels of these administrators. $400k? I don’t even pay myself that - and I actually have the option to. At the $400k/year paygrade, I’m sorry, but these clowns have apparently lost all touch with reality. And what the hell is the function of a “vice-chancellor?” WTF?
The greed of the school unions, the teachers - and the ignorance of those that support them is sickening. It is lame that (most of) those actually doing the teaching are too stupid to acknowledge the simple economics of the situation. Morons teaching morons.
The future of schools probably are on the internet. We can acknowledge this and embrace it - or not adapt and die. I’m sick of the Taj Mahal no expense spared schools here in Clark County. They had better start teaching these kids to read and write before worrying about a fiber network connection in the classroom that will never be used anyway. (but is a great way to eat up the extra money so they can say they are broke at the next legislature and beg for more cash).
A few years ago, small business stood relatively united against the gross receipts tax. On the other side was Jeremy Aguero of Applied Analytics with his goofy wrong Miss Cleo derived deficit figures, the scumbags at the NSEA including Ken Lange, and the gaming industry.
The casino industry I guess feared an increase in the gaming tax, so they decided to take a ride across the river on the back of the snake so to speak and join up with the NSEA. Hillarious now how they are getting bitten in the ass. The casinos deserve everything they are facing now.
It would have been so much more simple for gaming to stand WITH small business and offer some real education to the citizens of Nevada about how their money is wasted rather than going “yeah, schools are underfunded - we’re 69th out of 50″ and the goofy “per pupil spending” figure. Yeah, Wall Street so valuates Apple and Microsoft on the “Per employee spending”… Hey, Taco Bell spends more per employee than Del Taco, so it must be WAY better huh?
“Dark ages?” If you don’t want a return to the dark ages, how about demanding some minimal performance from the CCSD before worrying about CCSN and UNLV.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:36 am
Jim Brown says, with respect to higher education, “Make them compete for students. Make them and their budgets accountable to the free market.” Why not apply this to all forms of education? That is exactly the system that was in place 200 years ago when the literacy rate of the overall population was at least twice what it is today. Even 75 years ago (before universal mandatory schooling) virtually everyone could join the military. Now, the military has to carefully screen to make sure their recruits can read, AND UNDERSTAND, simple instructions.