I ran across this great article from Michigan economist professor Mark Perry on a recent study looking into which college disciplines are the most and the least “politically correct.” Sure enough, people who get degrees like mine are not very politically correct.
Do you think it’s that we started out not very PC, or did we [...]
Ran across this interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today… it says one of the truths of my youth is now false.
Having a college degree is no longer a guarantee of a steadily rising paycheck.
Then what is?
Thanks to Jon Ralston for posting Chancellor Roger’s latest memo on his blog. This is the one where he announces the Legislature should be sued and forced to raise taxes to increase NSHE spending.
Here is how much NSHE has been spending the past few years:
Year
Total Spending
General Fund Spending
2001-02
$495,831,297
$346,845,022
2002-03
$530,804,136
$370,593,608
2003-04
$623,544,443
$482,655,305
2004-05
$660,235,771
$506,746,590
2005-06
$734,687,365
$557,374,664
2006-07
$792,195,555
$591,813,068
2007-08
$837,905,664
$639,293,540
2008-09
$912,423,319
$677,091,932
Over the seven years above, higher ed spending [...]
And pause your finger over that last one. NSHE Chancellor Jim Rogers seems about to explode, literally.
Frustrated over being one of a shrinking minority who insists on continuing to grow Nevada’s higher education system at some multiple of population-growth-and-inflation - and paying for it with a series of tax hikes that would be devastating to [...]
Nevada System for Higher Education (NSHE) chancellor Jim Rogers eked out seven column inches in the Las Vegas Review Journal this morning on page 5B with his complaint that the Governor is attempting to muzzle him.
“I am disturbed, but not intimidated or deterred by the efforts of Governor Gibbons, acting through one of his closest [...]
University Regents are elected to set policy for Nevada’s system of higher education and hire the chancellor. Yesterday, they heard that for the first time in a long time, the amount of financial assistance given to students was lower than the year before.
Some people knew this was coming as early as the year 2001. By [...]
Wow! 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 [...]
