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In reply to the discussion: Underpaid 83-Year-Old Professor Died Trying to Make Ends Meet by Working Night Shift at Eat an' Save [View all]QC
(26,371 posts)9. Undergrad tuition at Duquesne runs from $29k-$43k.
They have an endowment of app. $177 million.
Their president is paid $700k.
We're not talking about an impoverished teacher's college out in the sticks.
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xchrom
Sep 2013
OP
"Upper Volta with missles" is how many in the former USSR described what was left of their society..
eppur_se_muova
Sep 2013
#79
Students are first-generation college Catholics who couldn't get in at Notre Dame/Georgetown.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#41
A lot of Neoliberals are liberals about social issues, but are me-firsters on taxes and economics.
leveymg
Sep 2013
#35
I find that close to 100% of people object to labels with which they do not self-identify
stevenleser
Sep 2013
#52
Read what I posted again. It was not in reference to her skills, but the system now in place
another_liberal
Sep 2013
#106
my union represents our lecturers just as it represents our tenure line faculty....
mike_c
Sep 2013
#111
Makes one proud of the USA! Ain't American the best place in the world! Go USA! Go USA! Go USA!
RKP5637
Sep 2013
#13
Fired for caught sleeping in her office to keep warm; unable to pay electric bill.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#15
Founded by order of priests who no longer have enough members to operate or staff it.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#57
By describing the school as Catholic in name only, I mean that neither administration nor faculty
Divernan
Sep 2013
#67
I teach at a Jesuit university, we have a really strong union, which the admin encouraged.
diane in sf
Sep 2013
#130
Right on, Jebbies! Good to hear. No reason except greed that Duquesne couldn't do this.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#132
Ok, but I don't know what more to expect from part-time work on a semester contractual basis
aikoaiko
Sep 2013
#59
A severance package would have been a decent, honorable,"christian" thing to give her.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#60
That would be nice, but most universities don't offer severance packages to anyone.
aikoaiko
Sep 2013
#66
"Right" is also in the context of policy and how organizations treats other employees.
aikoaiko
Sep 2013
#71
It may be manipulation, but not necessarily..Do think the school is not doing "damage control"?
whathehell
Sep 2013
#119
Atty. had represented her pro bono; women born in 1930 unlikely to have been big earners.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#38
She lived "on campus" for a few weeks only, in a house with a priest & 3 seminarians.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#134
This is so sad....it is a disgrace that this poor woman was stripped of her dignity
Theyletmeeatcake2
Sep 2013
#51
Somebody should spray paint Matthew 25:40 all over that campus, and the univ. Prez' car.
n2doc
Sep 2013
#74
Covered by the "cloak of religion" the school probably gave little of no health benefits, no employe
kelliekat44
Sep 2013
#97
You are SO wrong about social security! I'll repeat what I've posted elsewhere in this thread.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#137
Well excuse me for not knowing the specifics of Duquesne and other Catholic schools
magical thyme
Sep 2013
#144
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? The treadmill? The poor houses?
Divernan
Sep 2013
#156
Weren't "non-profits" like Duquesne exempt from participatinag in Soc. Sec. until 1975?
Divernan
Sep 2013
#120
"knew her well" and still, she was in desperate straits. laval house has several male seminary
niyad
Sep 2013
#158
Unlike Duquesne, Georgetown U.cites Catholic Church's teachings as favoring labor unions.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#126
So right re Medicare, and they also think Social Security is at least $1,000 a month.
Divernan
Sep 2013
#141