What Tim Burke said.
Coming soon (I hope): comments on what Laura and Belle are justifiably riled about.
Also, the latest in overpaid administrators. A colleague claims that the president of his college (one of the smallest in the state, with sliding enrollment and little success in gaining capital funding) makes more than the governor, due to what is at least an interesting situation. Named a finalist in a search for a new president for the Southern Nevada's community college system, the Board of Trustees granted the president a raise to keep her. The problem? The $25,000 raise came from discretionary funds, because the state had capped the president's wages. Also, the only people at the college to have raises in the past 3 years were administrators. Oh -- and the president and board had turned down many requests for student-oriented services and filling of empty positions, only to be asked to "do more with less!" Here's the real kicker -- it seems that there wasn't much threat that the president was going to leave. Ask not what an administrator can do for the college ...
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