Is college merely a business?

What is the purpose of a University, and what is the University's largest goal?

Are they more concerned with deriving a profit or educating students?

Well let’s take a look and find out:

If the University of Iowa was considered a business then its main purpose would to be to make a profit.

If the University of Iowa's main purpose was to educate students, then they would be helping students to receive the best education at the lowest price possible.

What does it mean when the University overcharges for books, food, drinks, and school supplies?

It means that the University is more concerned with their profit rather than the original intentions of a school to begin with.

Today’s society is profit hungry and seems to look at everything in terms of how can I make money from this?

Even education.

I wish things could be like they were in earlier times, times when people sent their children to school with the sole purpose of pure education. Now schools, especially at the higher education level, are focused around deriving a profit.

If schools could go back to the way they were 50 years ago, students could receive education at an affordable price.

Universities have become so focused on making money that they have left other more important issues on the back burner. Education first, money later that should be the motto.

Fun With Numbers

My favorite number is the number nine. This is my ninth and final post. Phew! But I have some other numbers connected with a little thing called the General Education Fund(GEF) to talk about too. First of all, let me clue you in on what the General Education Fund is, because I didn’t know what it was until I stumbled across this page .

The GEF is composed of three different sources of financing: state appropriations, tuition paid by students, and payments received for facilities and administrative costs(F&A). State appropriations and tuition payments account for more than 90% of the fund. The fund is used to run the school. It pays for things like most faculty and staff salaries(except those associated with the Hospital or the Athletic Department), building maintanence and campus activities. You can see a more complete list if you click on the link. So…the GEF seems to be pretty important.

Now lets look at some numbers…
In 2000 the state provided 62% of the financing, tuition was 30% and F&A accounted for most of the remaining 8%.

This was the breakdown in 2004
State 48%
Tuition 43%
F&A 9%

Wow, sucks for us. I don’t think it gets any clearer than that. The state can’t keep up, so we have to take up the slack. And what’s worse, the GEF report goes on to say that the school still can’t keep up, even with our extra, no wait, compensating tuition money.

Check this out…

“For example, in 2002-03, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) had nearly 2000 more undergraduate students than it had less than a decade ago, yet it had 55 fewer faculty and 700 fewer graduate students to teach and advise those undergraduates, largely as a result of local efforts to deal with CLAS’s share of across-the-board budget reductions. Further across-the-board reductions will mean an increasingly poor ratio of faculty to students in CLAS and elsewhere. Similarly, the budget difficulties have meant that the University has lost ground with respect to its ability to recruit and retain a high-quality faculty and staff.”

It takes a lot of scrolling to get to the part of the report where they come up with the things they’re going to cut in order to make the UI a better place, in other words, this is the solutions part of the report. In this section, I found something interesting. It appears the GEF had been giving the Athletic Department 1.8million dollars. What do they need more money for? Especially when any money they earn can’t go to help the school at large. It can only stay within in the department.

Another cut they’re going to make is taking $450,000 from the school’s radio stations. Not cool man. Not cool. But that’s an argument for another time and another blog. I just thought I’d mention it.

Anybody see a pattern throughout all these lovely posts I’ve made?

The state makes cuts.
The university makes cuts.
The regents approve tuition hikes.
The quality of higher education suffers.
The state of Iowa suffers.
The student suffers.

I’m graduating in December and couldn’t be more excited to get the hell out of here. Way to go Iowa, keep up the good work. Make us suffer; take away faculty and funding and facilities. Continue the pattern. And we’ll continue to leave.

Maybe they're not all bad.

My recent entries have been not only pessimistic, but downright grumpy toward blogs and the possibilities they may hold for the future of democracy both in the U.S. and around the world. This pessimism may have come with my technological misfortunes and the end of semester homework crunch, or maybe the simple fact that I just like being pessimistic. But today, I’ve decided to argue with myself about my past positions. I have said that people shouldn’t write blogs off as the best things since sliced bread, that they aren’t that great. However, blogs shouldn’t be written off as good-for-nothing either. It seems as both sides say, “WOAH, hold on! Don’t assume that they’re that important/unimportant.” So the right answer, as it is with most things, is probably somewhere in the middle. A great example of blogs working just how I was saying they wouldn’t is the case of Iran. Blogs by Iranians living in either Iran or elsewhere in the world have been very popular. There are over 75,000 blogs in Persian language. They have been wildly popular among youth in Iran. Many of the blogs combine personal accounts of living in Iran with discussions and arguments about politics in a country where censorship is heavy (BBC rates it as the 4th most censored country in the world). It is true that the Internet, to a certain extent, is becoming ‘censored’, but the greater part of it still remains as a gigantic forum for free expression. During recent Iranian presidential elections, there was a surge of Iranian blogging about it. Blogging and the Internet have given people a voice that often don’t have one (especially because blogs can be posted anonymously). This can also foster greater international awareness of political issues, because bloggers seem to have this creepy digital world of connections (which I apparently don’t yet understand how to navigate/infiltrate). Like I said before, there are over 75,000 Persian language blogs, but not many effective Perisan to English/Spanish/French online translating tools. This is a setback in the international scope of things, but the effectiveness within the Persian speaking/Iranian community throughout the world should not be overlooked. Hopefully blogs can have the same success in other countries that do not have much of an opportunity to speak up.

Blogs kinda piss me off

I am getting annoyed with blogs. I think it is annoying that you have to scroll down forever and ever to see stuff. I also think it is annoying when people cant post response comments on blog sites. If you don't let people post things to correct mistakes/challenge your view, etc., then I believe a lot of the good of blogs is lost. Finally, I really don't enjoy how smart so many bloggers think they are.

FRUSTRATED

Frustrated

Its registration time here at The University of Iowa- a time where students have very little guidance as to what classes they should be taking to satisfy the necessary requirements in order to graduate in four years. Last semester, I was abroad in Spain. I had to register for classes while I was abroad and correspondence was done via email with my counselor. It was quite a frustrating experience for me. No one could answer any of my questions regarding the amount of classes needed to satisfy the requirements for either of my two minors, International Studies or Spanish. During registration time, there is ONE counselor that handles the entire Communication Studies department. That means ALL students who need to figure out their classes only have one very busy person to speak with. I was told that after my semester abroad in Spain, I still needed one more class to finish my minor. I was also told that I needed 2 more classes to finish my International Studies minor. What was the truth? After my semester abroad, I would be in fact DONE with BOTH of my minors, needing 0 more classes. How did I figure this out? I did all the work when I returned home. I made A LOT of phone calls. I even went to see my freshman year counselor who usually does not handle students who are in a major. It was a very frustrating experience for me. So while I am paying out of state tuition prices, and will continue to pay my loans back for 15 years, I cannot even get someone who knows what they are doing to help me graduate on time! Tuition prices just keep rising and I am not seeing any of the benefits!

Furthermore, I am once again in another very frustrating situation. I will be a second semester senior in the spring, and as I registered for classes last week, I did not get any of the classes I wanted. I have been trying to take an art class since the first semester of my freshman year, and the only art class that non art majors can take is a class called Elements of Art. This is the ONLY class that non-art majors can take, that is frustrating in itself. Well this class only has 3 classes which have 12, 12, and 14 seats in each class. That means that out of the ~25,000 undergraduates, only 38 students can take this class each semester. I emailed the head of the art department to find out if there was anything I could do, and I received this email in reply:

Meagan, I am sorry to say that you are in the same position as many other students. Due to the fact that we have so many majors (just shy of 900), the bulk of our classes must be coded for them. Elements of Art is the only class open to non-majors (other than Saturday and Evening classes), and as such is the class that anyone interested in art wants to take. We are only funded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to teach a limited number of Elements of Art classes. I wish it were different--any Iowa student should be able to take a studio art class as a part of a liberal arts degree, but the reality is that we just don't have enough classes for non-majors.

Evelyn Acosta-Weirich Undergraduate Advisor School of Art and Art History

Where is all of my tuition money going? I’d really like to know!

Frustrated

Its registration time here at The University of Iowa- a time where students have very little guidance as to what classes they should be taking to satisfy the necessary requirements in order to graduate in four years. Last semester, I was abroad in Spain. I had to register for classes while I was abroad and correspondence was done via email with my counselor. It was quite a frustrating experience for me. No one could answer any of my questions regarding the amount of classes needed to satisfy the requirements for either of my two minors, International Studies or Spanish. During registration time, there is ONE counselor that handles the entire Communication Studies department. That means ALL students who need to figure out their classes only have one very busy person to speak with. I was told that after my semester abroad in Spain, I still needed one more class to finish my minor. I was also told that I needed 2 more classes to finish my International Studies minor. What was the truth? After my semester abroad, I would be in fact DONE with BOTH of my minors, needing 0 more classes. How did I figure this out? I did all the work when I returned home. I made A LOT of phone calls. I even went to see my freshman year counselor who usually does not handle students who are in a major. It was a very frustrating experience for me. So while I am paying out of state tuition prices, and will continue to pay my loans back for 15 years, I cannot even get someone who knows what they are doing to help me graduate on time! Tuition prices just keep rising and I am not seeing any of the benefits!

Furthermore, I am once again in another very frustrating situation. I will be a second semester senior in the spring, and as I registered for classes last week, I did not get any of the classes I wanted. I have been trying to take an art class since the first semester of my freshman year, and the only art class that non art majors can take is a class called Elements of Art. This is the ONLY class that non-art majors can take, that is frustrating in itself. Well this class only has 3 classes which have 12, 12, and 14 seats in each class. That means that out of the ~25,000 undergraduates, only 38 students can take this class each semester. I emailed the head of the art department to find out if there was anything I could do, and I received this email in reply:

Meagan, I am sorry to say that you are in the same position as many other students. Due to the fact that we have so many majors (just shy of 900), the bulk of our classes must be coded for them. Elements of Art is the only class open to non-majors (other than Saturday and Evening classes), and as such is the class that anyone interested in art wants to take. We are only funded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to teach a limited number of Elements of Art classes. I wish it were different--any Iowa student should be able to take a studio art class as a part of a liberal arts degree, but the reality is that we just don't have enough classes for non-majors.

Evelyn Acosta-Weirich Undergraduate Advisor School of Art and Art History

Where is all of my tuition money going? I’d really like to know!

The Ethics of Corporate Funding

Most universities have to supplement dwindling budgets by partnering with corporations and accepting their money to fund research. Do you really think some giant corporation is going to give a research university millions of dollars free and clear? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Here’s the difference between corporate funding, and the funds universities used to get from the federal government.

Federal Funds
• Have tended to fund basic research(the kind that seems aimless and open ended, but that’s the kind that has historically led to cures for disease and major technological innovations) for long periods of time
• No constraints, more academic freedom to share research and experiment

Corporate Funds
• Funds are provided for short term projects, that are expected to have a near term pay off in the marketplace
• Companies have no interest in funding “basic” research
• Companies are very involved in that they will not allow publication of negative results
• Secrecy is important
• Threats to pull funding are made if the university does not comply to corporate conditions

Ok, so you may be asking yourself what does all this mean to me and the University of Iowa? Believe it or not, the UI is a research institution, and a pretty good one at that. Ever been on the west side of campus? Take a look around and you’ll see where some pretty hardcore research is going down. Oh, and if you’ve ever been to student health, I’m sure you’ve noticed they’ve been building a shiny new structure across the street for a couple of years now. Well, I’m willing to bet some of the money for that lovely campus over there and the research going on inside came from corporations. What’s the big deal?

Well, the reason the UI has to depend on those funds in the first place goes back to the state not allocating enough money to higher education in the first place. That and the UI knows they can’t possibly squeeze enough out of student tuition dollars to pay for research. But they’re damned if they do and they’re damned if they don’t, because being a good research school is very important. However, accepting corporate dollars can come at the cost our education, oddly enough. The brilliant faculty the UI has become renowned for are no longer teaching and sharing their knowledge, but they’re in the lab, essentially working for a corporate entity, instead of you and your tuition dollar.

Grad students in the sciences…listen up! All that lab time you’re doing for that special prof? Yeah, you’re probably working for Eli Lilly or some other entity and if you help discover something really cool, your name will be nowhere on it. You’re paying the UI tuition to be slave labor to have your work taken from you. Wow…that sucks.

Some universities actually have contracts with companies stating they will share any patents that may develop from research. I just hope the Grad students ask some questions the next time they walk in the lab, or actually read the fine print before they’re asked to sign some shady non-disclosure form.

I understand that money makes the world go round, and universities are just trying to survive, but schools are places of learning, not some outsourcing site for R&D. Worst of all, this whole corporate funding situation actually prevents developments and improvements from being made, because academics and scientists aren’t allowed to share their research. That’s all fair in the corporate world, but that doesn’t sound like academia to me.

Surviving College Tuition

Ok so we all know that college is becoming an essential part of life. Fifty, even twenty five years ago, it was a luxury to go to college, especially a four - year university. However, with more and more people receiving a higher education, the workforce is becoming much more competitive. Since we really have no choice but to go to school, the next problem becomes, how are we going to pay for it? This question is become of interest to many, with the price of college increasing at a rapid rate, we all question how we are going to pay for our schooling, not to mention the schooling of our children.

Well there are many different programs these days to help us start saving. Mellody Hobson gives some good advice in choosing a program that is right for you and your family. A good start would be looking into a 529 college fund plan. According to "How 529 Plans Work", there are quite a few benefits for this form of college planning:

-You pay no taxes on the account's earnings.
-The child doesn't have control of or access to the account -- you do.
-If the child doesn't want to go to college, you can roll the account over to another family
member.
-Anyone can contribute to the account.
-There are no income limitations that might make you ineligible for an account.
-Most states have no age limit for when the money has to be used.
-If the child gets a scholarship, any unused money can be withdrawn without paying any penalty
(just the tax).

Of course, there are always other websites to consider, such as: Saving for College. This is a helpful website to figure out some options. But no matter what way you go, it is important to plan and be prepared.

There’s No Cure-All, but We Can Try

I think we all wish there were some sort of tuition fairy, who could wave her wand and magically make everything all better. It just seems like problems are coming from all directions. Let me count the ways…

1. We’re in a recession
2. Recessions cause cuts at all levels of government
• The Federal Government Cuts funding for student loans like it was mentioned in a previous post
• State budgets are in the red, thus need to make cuts. Funding for higher education is always on the list
• Those cuts trickle down to the University level, causing budget cuts and tuition hikes.
3. Recessions cause families to tighten their budgets and then they need more help to send their kids to school
4. Even though we’re in a recession, schools are seeing record enrollments
• How are schools supposed to handle all the new students, when they have less funding available?
• Students are choosing public schools over private schools because their family can’t afford it. Thus, expectations are that public schools should perform and have facilities like private schools, especially because of rising tuition costs at public institutions
• However the public universities can barely keep up with the state cuts, and more requests for financial aid, and they have to raise tuition just to keep up with that.
5. Faculty and professional staff end up at private institutions who don’t encounter as many of the financial problems as the public universities
• Northwestern’s president said he would “leverage the public schools' financial weakness to get some really good faculty that those schools can't afford to pay.”

The article I’ve been referencing for this post mentioned how some schools have tried unique ways to help make ends meet. The most unusual idea came from Montana’s university system. They set aside timberland and decided that the profit from that land would go to the schools in the university system. Other states are using money raised from lottery tickets and taxing cigarettes. How hard would it be for the state of Iowa to do something like that? We have lots of farmland here; we could copy Montana’s idea? Or on a smaller scale...how about selling special t-shirts at all the UI sporting events? And then investing that money. That idea would be two-fold. Inform the public, and raise money! Obviously there are no easy answers, and it seems like the problems are likely to compound. But other states/schools are getting things done. Why can’t we?

All in the comfort of your own home.

What if you could vote for local, state, even national elections from your home computer or television? Or computer/television/pda/gps/blackberry/cell/mp3 player? (Hey-with technology these days, I wouldn’t be surprised) I don’t know about you, but I would do it. Integrating better technology into voting is a reality, but would it result in a greater number of voters? Is that even a good thing? The last time I checked, less than half of the US population that is eligible to vote, actually does so in presidential elections. So, if people could do so from the comfort of their own home, more people might do it. However there are a few problems with this. First off, as I mentioned in an earlier post, not everyone has a computer, but almost everyone over the age of 18 has the right to vote. So, obviously, public places would have to be set up for citizens that are similar to that of the voting booths of today. But there are many other concerns around voting like this. What about hacking and viruses? Computer or Internet failure on the day of the election? The bazillion other possible technological problems? What about flaws in the program people use to vote or the inability for some people to understand the program? (Well, it’s not like the system is perfect now-cough 2000 election, Florida, cough).
Furthermore, should the goal be just to get more people to vote? My dad told me that he didn’t want everyone to vote, he wanted everyone who looked into the candidates, issues, etc. to be the ones to vote-that it wasn’t just about numbers. But, I don’t totally buy into that. I think better facilitating voters is a good thing. It is everyone’s (over the age of 18 and not a felon, in jail, blah blah) to vote no matter for what reasons. So maybe in the future some could do it while watching Nightline, or the Daily Show, or Wheel of Fortune, or Fox News, or while you're buying a knife you saw on an infomercial that cuts through lead pipe...

Talk about costly!!

Well future students, I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but if you want to go to college, you'd better start saving now!! With the obvious hikes in tuition lately, and no plans of the tuition increase stopping in the near future, parents had better start planning a great deal in advance. In the past, you would hear of parents talking about starting a college savings account for their children when they started kindergarden. Well that is definitely all over with! To all you parents out there, you had better start saving BEFORE you even have your children!

According to KWWL news, "It will cost a kindergartner 200-thousand dollars to go to college, and a one year old, a quarter of a million dollars". This is outragious!! Now I know that many of you are thinking that it is all in perspective with inflation, but all I can think of is: A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS! Some people's homes don't even cost that much money. All of this increase in college tuition comes out to be around "increasing at about an 8 percent annual rate" (KWWL).

So all we can do now is to start planning. With student loans, fianancial aid and college investments funds there are quite a few different options that are out there. If any of you are interested in some things that you can do to start saving and the different investment programs check out Bankrate, it will give you a few good ideas. So at the very least we can all be a little more prepared for our children's future.

Students Want Solutions!

The State of Washington has a program that helps parents and children afford college tuition prices, Iowa needs to a similar program.

PROBLEM:

College tuition prices have more than tripled over the past 20 years, and they are increasing faster than both personal income and inflation.

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON HAS A SOLUTION:

A program called Guaranteed Education Tuition. “GET is Washington's 529 prepaid college tuition program. With GET, the State of Washington guarantees that the money you save for your child's college education will keep pace with rising college tuition.
The legislature and governor created GET to help families like yours save for college. Today GET is one of the fastest growing prepaid college tuition programs in the country, with more than 55,000 college accounts worth more than $620 million.”


GET is a very helpful program in the state of Washington. GET guarantees that the saving for your child's college education will be a doable task. This program will keep pace with the rising prices of college tuitions. “If you buy one year of college tuition today, it will be worth one year of college tuition when your child is ready for college - even if tuition doubles or triples during that time period. When you buy stocks and bonds, you assume all of the risks of an uncertain financial market. With GET, the State of Washington assumes all of the risks.”

If the University of Iowa finds it necessary to increase tuition prices there should be more solutions. Without giving students and parent’s solutions they are creating more problems. If students cannot afford to attend college, there will be a great decrease in educated individuals. The State will end up paying more money trying to encourage students to attend college then they were spending before. The state should seriously consider this and fix the problem now, before it gets worse!

GET is a wonderful program that offers a great financial solution. Iowa should have a similar program.

Now they're messing with student loans!

Well not only are we facing an increase in tuition hikes, for the upcoming school year, but now the students who are taking out student loans are facing an increased hardship. The House and Senate are voting on a proposed bill to cut student loan spending. The bill that will be voted on "could cut as much as $15 billion from federally subsidized student loans in an effort to reduce spending" (Chip Cutter). "The committee bill also decreases the fees students pay for loans, from 4 percent to 1 percent, and increases the student loan limits for first- and second-year students, from $2,625 to $3,500 and $3,500 to $4,500, respectively" (IDSnews). According to representatives the average student will probably see very little difference in the amount that they are paying. However, do we really think that this will be the end of it? If Congress is looking for ways to cut spending then where will they go next, because we all know that they are interested in education but only up until the point of haivng to pay for it.

Really what all this amounts to is that the financial institutions will be hit with less money to subsidize and therefore will no longer be able to offer as many loans, and most likely will hike up the prices of the loans. Along with The Deficit Reduction Act, which contains "$53.9 billion in budget savings over the next five years aimed at reducing the deficit" (The Deficit Reduction Act) they will be cutting necessary funds from different institiutions and organizations to lower the deficit. So I guess the real question is: who is going to get burned? I know that the U.S. has an enormous amount of debt and that financial aid will have to be cut somewhere, but when will it be enough? Who will get hit next?

So go ahead, contact a local representative and let them know how you feel. It can't hurt (Local Representatives).

Oh, I'd say somewhere between 10 and 31.6 million.

There are lots of blogs out there. Between 10 and 31.6 million to be exact. So, they have to be doing something? Creating some kind of impact, right? Of course they are, but the number of blogs out there and the number of people that read blogs on a daily basis cannot be pinned down exactly. Carl Bialk, in an article for the Wall Street Journal Online reports that most blogs are started up by people and then left to rot and die out there in cyberspace, but they're still counted. Like for instance, my friend that has a Live Journal in which he blabs on about things to whoever will read them. Does that count as a blog? It's not helping me become a better "informed citizen", unless that means knowing what John ate for lunch on Sunday and how he felt about it. However, blogs do have an impact. Look at the case of Little Green Footballs, the blog that kept an eye on Dan Rather's report on Prez GW's National Guard Service-just look at what happened there. (If you do not know, go find out on a blog somewhere-I'm sure the info is out there...somewhere) Or what about a blog like PostSecret? It is not really like a blabby online diary style blog but not a political/informed citizen/idealistic democratic blog either, but it is really sweet and is a forum for people to share life experiences and secrets, creating a sort of online community. People send postcards to the publisher of this blog with secrets they want to share (anonymously) and what results is a weird, funny, creepy, depressing, inspiring site.
So, maybe we should all get into some sort of blogging, in the hopes that it will turn into something bigger and better than the person that started it. We also should just stop counting the number of blogs and use that to come to some conclusion besides the number of blogs there are-dead or alive. There are already too many confusing statistics out there.

University Presidents: Their Salaries, Your Tuition $’s

Guess what former University of Iowa president is now the highest paid public university president in the nation? Non other than Mary Sue Coleman, now at the University of Michigan. Would you now like to guess what her administrative services are worth? Almost three-quarters of a million dollars…$724,604 in compensation according to AOL News. Salary competition is occurring because a lot of people are retiring and colleges want to replace them with people that have already been a president somewhere else. The rash of retirements and the want for governing boards to hire experienced people has caused an imbalance of supply and demand. In addition, the intensity of competition has driven the average tenure of a president at a large university down to five years. How can that possibly be long enough to get anything done?

So how did Michigan get Mary Sue from us in the first place? Well, according to an article in yesterday’s NY Times, it breaks down like this: she has “a package that included an annual base salary of $475,000 but also deferred pay of $500,000 as a retention bonus and $375,000 in additional base pay if she stayed at Michigan for five years.” They’re pretty smart up there in Ann Arbor. If you’re going to spend all that money, you might as well make sure your president sticks around awhile.

Our current president, David Skorton makes a paltry $302,047 compared to Mary Sue. He’s been quoted as saying he’s fine with what he makes because he loves his job and the university. That’s all fine and dandy. As long as he’s here to stay. I don’t want my tuition squandered on some guy just passing through the UI on his way to bigger and better things. Even one of the state regents doesn’t have the utmost confidence in the situation. Check out this series statements and comments from an article in today’s Press-Citizen :

Iowa state Board of Regents member Dr. Amir Arbisser said those figures were a reminder of what a good deal the state of Iowa was getting.

"These people are constantly visible at the national level, and, believe it, there are definitely people at the national level who are constantly trying to recruit them away," Arbisser said.

Arbisser said people also needed to consider that university presidents would be making significantly more money if they were running private corporations comparable in size and complexity to their schools.

"I don't think you would find an individual like Dr. Skorton running an enterprise like the University of Iowa systems, which includes the (UI) Hospitals and Clinics, with a total annual budget of somewhere between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, for a salary in the range that he gets," Arbisser said. "It is a highly unusual bargain (for the state)."

Way to play the game Arbisser! You just told Skorton that you got him cheap. I’m going to be even more disgruntled with the regents if Skorton decides his services are worth more and he up and leaves. When a university has a revolving door in the president’s mansion, it affects the quality of the institution, all the way down to the student level. I don’t want to pay for that in the classroom, and I certainly don’t want to pay more in tuition when it comes time to try and lure a new president in. What mess.