Multilitteratus Incognitus

I was catching up on my news comedy yesterday and I was delighted to see this as the subject of last week's "last week tonight"

I came across this article on the Chronicle of Higher Ed recently . It was an interesting read. I can't really speak to the financial information they give because I am not involved in that area of university management. I did however have a couple of comments on other topics... Millions of workers have lost their jobs in recent months. But tenured professors are hard to fire. And some powerful faculty unions have resisted when colleges asked their members to teach more classes, despite what seemed like reasonable requests. The faculty union at Kean University, for example, balked last year when administrators tried to require professors to teach on Fridays and some Saturdays. The public university, located in New Jersey, was facing a $4.5-million cut in the state's contribution and was trying to get more use out of classroom buildings. Faculty members considered the proposal an assault on their autonomy and a retaliation for a previous squabble with administrators. Since then ...