I think I've hit my breaking point...

[BlueDogs]

You don't know what you are talking about. There has been a drop in full-time faculty from over 75% to 32% in the last couple of decades. That's not the reason for the rise in tuitions. If you want to know the reason, backchannel me for studies on the issue.

I beg to differ. You dont know what you're talking about professor. Just open the UConn budgets and you will see the following 5-9% year over year increases in the personnel and fringe benefits lines of the operating budget. These compounding increases over a reltively short periods of time result in massive spending increases. This coupled with similar behaviors at the local and state budget levels have resulted in an all out assault on taxpayers. Im not interested in nonsense studies that try to explain away what is plainly obvious to those who care to look, but thanks anyway.

 

[upstater]

There have been studies on this issue heavy with empirical analysis. PM me and I'll send you the link to the studies. You are wrong on this. The non-fixed budget doesn't go up that fast. The increase in research spending however is fixed and contractual. You MUST increase spending there, it's part of the contract. But most colleges are not growing research like UConn is.

I beg to differ. You dont know what you're talking about professor. Just open the UConn budgets and you will see the following 5-9% year over year increases in the personnel and fringe benefits lines of the operating budget. These compounding increases over a reltively short periods of time result in massive spending increases. This coupled with similar behaviors at the local and state budget levels have resulted in an all out assault on taxpayers. Im not interested in nonsense studies that try to explain away what is plainly obvious to those who care to look, but thanks anyway.