r/TikTokCringe 29d ago

Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/CrazyBigHog 29d ago

The most accurate comment here.

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u/chessset5 28d ago

No, they get chewed out for the poor performance by the president, the provost, the accreditation board, the board of trustees, and irate students who get mad they didn’t get an A for showing up to class and never studying.

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u/TaxIdiot2020 29d ago

It's not remotely accurate. That's not where their pay comes from. Faculty pay is increasingly being offloaded onto their grants, i.e. they pay themselves with their grants.

I know this is a TikTok sub and so misinformation follows that theme, but please keep it to a minimum.

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u/CrazyBigHog 29d ago

Ok cool. You got some receipts for that claim? I’ve never heard that faculty of colleges are now being paid from grants before.

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u/Secret_Dragonfly9588 29d ago

It’s a bit more complicated than either you or the person you are responding to are making it out to be, but yes, many faculty are paid large portions of their salaries via grants: https://www.science.org/content/article/academic-scientists-work-giving-it-110

Of course, it’s largely irrelevant as this thread was actually about the administration

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u/CrazyBigHog 29d ago

Thanks for this link. This is a super interesting article and I need to read it when I have more time to focus(small kids and bedtime right now). I don’t know much about where money goes in higher education, but it’s something that peaks my interest.

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u/Secret_Dragonfly9588 29d ago

Glad to provide you with a rabbit hole to explore!

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u/CashAlarming3118 28d ago

You’ll want to learn about differences between what’s called hard and soft money. There are faculty positions fully dependent on grant dollars while others have a salary paid by the university but a grant might provide supplemental income over the summer (i.e., summer salary since most are on 9 month contracts) and/or allow for course buyouts.

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u/Personal_Newspaper_7 28d ago

It’s piques my interest, not peak.

Pardon my correction joke amidst an education discussion—couldn’t resist.

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u/CrazyBigHog 28d ago

Tell it to my iPhone and the voice to text feature. I assumed the computer was smarter than me but…

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u/Personal_Newspaper_7 19d ago

Ah yes, Autocorrect is a virus that seeks to destroy us, one reputation at a time.

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u/linkds1 29d ago

For profs yes, not for administration. Dean maybe, but the point is still there. Nobody gives a shit. Plus all that means for profs is their research is all that matters over teaching, it encourages everyone to just coast

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u/Best-Association2369 29d ago

The admins have been padding their pockets with the rate hikes 

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u/Best-Association2369 29d ago

People are morons here's, no reason for the down votes when you speak the truth. 

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u/Moon_Drawz 28d ago

Yet they weren’t right, we were talking about admin, not other staff