GM says:

Why is it that "higher" education always needs to hire from outside the state? Do we have inferior schools? Most professors from outside of the state are higher at a premium because they are use to the cost of living from where they are from. On top of that, the new employee usually gets spousal accommodation, or in other words, a second job that could be filled with someone from Utah.
Tenure costs the state when a faculty decide they are to good to teach and their research is not innovative, but it is cheaper to keep them on rather than terminate their contract.
Furloughs only hurt professional and classified employees. This is a bad policy. First most faculty have a wife with a second job thus better able to with stand 2% - 4% cut in pay. Second with tenure, a university cannot trim deadwood because it takes a year plus to terminate a tenured faculty member.

James says:

Utah's higher ed system is a joke. There VP's and assistants for everything. Most of them do absolutely nothing but create paper work for those that teach. Several more simply have offices with titles but no real job because they have been "promoted" to get them out of the way. I have taught for over 20 years at the both the community college and university levels and just because an administrator has a PHD doesn't mean they have any common sense. What it means is that they can make a mountain out of a mole hill and whine like a little child when they don't get their way. Why is a person with a PHD even allowed to teach lower division classes? Most of them have the personality of a pot hole and look down at everyone that does not belong to their elite group. PHD professors should be hired to research. Schools should hire BS and ! at the most MS degree people to actually teach the classes; besides, you wouldn't have to pay them as much. Take UVU for example. Now that it is a university, they ONLY hire PHD professors and they aren't even a research school. How stupid! Paying PHD professors to teach community college level courses is like IHOP hiring expensive French chefs to make pancakes. I know I could eliminate 25 million from where I work and the students would be better served. The problem is if I ever said anything in public, I'd be fired before the day was over.

JL says:

When does a Community College get too big to be student friendly? look at SLCC and you'll see it is way beyond that. Smaller schools deliver better education and encourage students rather than intimidate them. SLCC should be broken up and downsized back to a managable institution.

DB says:

There is to much time and money being waisted on "General Studies" at the colleges and Universities. The majority of students who get a degree don't retain a thing from their "General Studies" courses. Why? Because they don't apply to the students everyday life and so they don't get used or applied. These students just learn how to regergitate what the Professor wants for the test and then they forget it. These courses are a waist of the students and teachers time and Tax dollars. Let the students get on with the focus of their education.

JT says:

University presidents do not need to live in state owned residences. All of them make huge salaries, yet all their expenses i.e. food, utilities, vehicle, etc. are paid for by the taxpayer. These positions (along with their associated VP's) have turned into nothing more than corporate executives living fat off the taxpayer. Don't give me the BS that we need to pay them that much to get good ones becacuse that is simply not true.

Martha G says:

Salt Lake Community parking services is over staffed and the staff is seldom seen actually writing tickets. If they actually worked some revenue would be generated.

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