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2003-07-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Gov't signing bonuses: Your Tax $ in Action

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Posted by Dar 2003-07-18 1:06:39 PM|| || Front Page|| [15 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Peshawar^Ã¢ËÅ¾, and looks bogus to me... She's already a tenured prof, what further "experience and education" is she supposed to have? Some bogus how-to-control-academics degree?

Posted by someone 2003-7-18 1:20:04 PM|| 2003-7-18 1:20:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The District's finances and personnel actions are so bad they make Congress look really, really good. Of course, the school situation in the District is also so great that a year or so ago they had to delay opening schools because they were in such poor maintenance. All this when for School Year 1999-2000 "the District [of Columbia] spending $10,107 per pupil from all revenue sources for current expenditures, compared to a national average of $6,911." according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Posted by SamIII 2003-7-18 1:36:07 PM|| 2003-7-18 1:36:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, Peshawar and all that--hence the posting in the SAST category.

Key phrase you glossed over: job for which she lacks the requisite experience and education...

But she does have the requisite connections, n'est pas?

Posted by Dar 2003-7-18 1:37:37 PM|| 2003-7-18 1:37:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Is this the same Columbia University with that beauzeau who wanted to see 18000000 American soldiers dead? [/stupid question]

Posted by Ri'Neref 2003-7-18 1:39:43 PM|| 2003-7-18 1:39:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 She's already a tenured prof, what further "experience and education" is she supposed to have?

How about something called "qualifications"?

From the Washington Times:

"Would it be preferable that I select someone else's crony?" Mr. Pollard said in an interview with The Washington Times.

It's his own crony that he ended up hiring instead of "someone else's".

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-7-18 1:45:52 PM|| 2003-7-18 1:45:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ri - Nope. This is the U. of the District of Columbia, which has been plagued by this sort of thing since it was founded, about 25 years ago.

Posted by Fred 2003-7-18 2:19:27 PM|| 2003-7-18 2:19:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The "experience" required for a school provost and vice president of academic affairs, in my short tenures as a graduate teaching assistant and as an assistant professor, usually involves several years as an acting department/division head: Politics in Academia mirrors politics in other organizations, with a few kinks particular to that area of human endeavor.

The "education" qualification is usually an earned Ph.D. from an accredited institution of higher learning: You usually don't get tenure if you don't have one, but if she doesn't, then I'd suspect that something fishy was going on at Syracuse U. as well as at U of D.C..

Posted by Ptah 2003-7-18 2:29:53 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-7-18 2:29:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 She's a law professor. Therefore she has a JD. Very few law professors have PhDs.

The institution of empty "qualifications" is one of the establishment left's key tricks for keeping guild control over education. For example to qualify as a public school teacher you have to have some degree in it, which is another chance to indoctrinate you, etc. etc.

I know nothing about the people involved, except that the complainer is a Democratic DC Councilman, which isn't encouraging (to say the least). There's no accusation that Rueben-Cooke's incompetent. Barring such substantive issues, I don't know why anyone should be in favor of these barriers to entry.

Posted by someone 2003-7-18 3:05:24 PM|| 2003-7-18 3:05:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Mrs. Reuben-Cooke as the schoolâs provost and vice president of academic affairs â a $137,000-a-year job for which she lacks the requisite experience and education.

Mrs. Reuben-Cooke......why do all negro women have two last names now....?

Posted by Fed UP 2003-7-18 3:25:44 PM|| 2003-7-18 3:25:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Chilcoot Charlie sez: We cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-7-18 7:14:28 PM|| 2003-7-18 7:14:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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