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Date: August 17th, 2025 3:52 PM Author: Tan location The University of Chicago has now borrowed $6.3 billion, more than 70 percent of the value of its endowment. The cost of servicing its debt is now 85 percent of the value of all undergraduate tuition. This is not normal. No peer institution has a debt-to-asset ratio greater than 26 percent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192296) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:19 PM Author: Shimmering State They internalized budgeting from the city of Chicago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193309) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 12:07 AM Author: Beady-eyed step-uncle's house halford . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193556) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:26 PM Author: medicated lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194490) |
Date: August 17th, 2025 3:54 PM Author: nighttime pea-brained menage mad-dog skullcap uh link? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192301) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:07 PM Author: Bateful national security agency https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192324) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:14 PM Author: iridescent big windowlicker abode “This summer it proposed to “merge” (read: “close”) departments; send some students online—or perhaps put them on buses—to study at other institutions; and teach some languages via ChatGPT.”
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:17 PM Author: Cerebral silver point it fills my heart with joy to see universities suffer but I wish it was a bunch of other universities rather than Chicago in the deepest crisis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192348) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:46 PM Author: harsh at-the-ready nibblets gas station cr. they still have large pockets of non-woke professors and departments. so many LACs need to die first. |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 9:12 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy adventurous box office ratface Chicago was only the poorest school in its tier. I'm sure plenty of shit tier schools are hurting worse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193106) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:14 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy adventurous box office ratface The only reason I have any sympathy for them is because they aren't total corporate whores like UPenn where everything has a company's logo on it. They tried to maintain some integrity while spending gobs of money to look maintain appearances. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193303) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 3:55 PM Author: Wonderful Erotic Dingle Berry another Boomer bust out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192302) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 5:25 PM Author: green bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192496) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 5:29 PM Author: glittery indian lodge international law enforcement agency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192509) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 2:19 PM Author: Gay Haunting Stage Sneaky Criminal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194597) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 3:56 PM Author: Orchid therapy What kind of nefarious shit have they been funding (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192305) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 3:59 PM Author: Puce death wish You'd think with all the famous economists there they'd be extra good with money (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192310) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:00 PM Author: Orchid therapy They erected a giant penis building for an economist who was wrong about everything basically (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192312) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 2:08 PM Author: Aphrodisiac prole house keynes? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194570) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:11 PM Author: Startled People Who Are Hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192329) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:12 PM Author: Bateful national security agency https://www.reddit.com/r/ProfessorFinance/comments/1mqeaig/comment/n8rfc66/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192333) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:08 PM Author: Hideous buff hissy fit lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192790) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:23 PM Author: Sooty insecure mediation son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192845) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:43 PM Author: swashbuckling unhinged hell clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192907) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 8:42 PM Author: Sickened 180 dragon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193055) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:00 PM Author: Jet vibrant site (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193267) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:14 PM Author: Provocative Tantric Area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193299) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 12:17 PM Author: Underhanded cruise ship mother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194419) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:17 PM Author: Motley Mood Corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194472) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:26 PM Author: medicated lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194492) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:05 PM Author: Odious philosopher-king Lol they're revoking mig's degree (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192319) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:11 PM Author: Cerebral silver point and because they're in a slum they can't sell some land and make a bundle lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192332) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:18 PM Author: boyish cerise multi-billionaire goal in life Candy ride, explain yourself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192350) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:21 PM Author: razzmatazz gold dysfunction electric furnace ljl the "Chicago School of Economists" has influenced the world, graduating economists that have gone on to work in high level roles in such prestigious economies as Indonesia, Argentina, and Zambia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192357) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:25 PM Author: Orchid therapy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192374) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:21 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy adventurous box office ratface Indonesia was more affected by the "Berkeley Mafia"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Mafia
I don't think Chicago School had a ton of influence internationally. It was recognized and studied abroad but not wholesale adopted the way it was in America. |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:27 PM Author: razzmatazz gold dysfunction electric furnace yea nigga mixed that up but i think some other fags went to chicago, it actually worked in chile (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192857) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 8:33 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy adventurous box office ratface Like two countries in Latin America in the 70s. Milton Friedman said Hong Kong had the best economy in the world when it was a UK colony, but I'm pretty sure no one in HK ever read his books (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193029) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 4:28 PM Author: pontificating excitant hospital psychic Without doing any research, I’m sure that this traces back to Boomers. Admins and other “owners” probably did some university version of a dividend recap, loading the place up with debt a-la the PE playbook, and then plan to head for the south Florida riviera with their “profits.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192384) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 5:25 PM Author: green bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192495) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 5:48 PM Author: razzmatazz gold dysfunction electric furnace and women, women are 180 and understand that money grows on trees and its better to spend now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192546) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 5:26 PM Author: Marvelous orange senate if true, nooses now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192499) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 5:49 PM Author: razzmatazz gold dysfunction electric furnace their budget office ljl i knew it
https://budgetoffice.uchicago.edu/about/people/ |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:06 PM Author: Marvelous orange senate im surprised they even have a token male at the top (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192779) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:10 PM Author: frisky exhilarant elastic band They handed out Deewy Leboeuf contracts to get profs to move. Leiter got a 10 year 100 million dollar deal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192804) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:53 AM Author: Hilarious purple circlehead Not what I was expecting… (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193662) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 2:10 PM Author: Aphrodisiac prole house lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194572) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:09 PM Author: cowardly stage 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192794) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:26 PM Author: Sooty insecure mediation son of senegal Bankruptcy mastermen: Is bankruptcy appropriate for an entity that has investments that exceed its liabilities by over $1B? Shouldn't the bankruptcy court's answer be, "Use your endowment, which exceeds your debts, to pay the money you owe"? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192855) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:59 PM Author: Lavender concupiscible crackhouse I think endowment funds are usually tightly restricted in how they're used. For example, the donor might specify that the money be used for minority scholarships or other communist agitprop. Only a small number of donations can be used for operational needs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192936) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 9:14 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy adventurous box office ratface How can the university borrow against endowment funds it doesn't control? I hope that's not a dumb question. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193111) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:06 PM Author: Bistre Kitchen When borrowing money, the endowment is 1800000 models and bottles When spending money, the endowment is my lil restricted guy ;) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:14 PM Author: fishy out-of-control parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194463) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:19 PM Author: Motley Mood Corner To be fair,
"the donor might specify that the money be used for minority scholarships or other communist agitprop"
How is this a "restriction" when it comes to running a prestigious American university in 2025? Sounds like they can basically spend those funds on anything they want, up to and including faggot sports with male cheerleaders. |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 2:10 PM Author: Aphrodisiac prole house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194573) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 7:29 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy adventurous box office ratface It was always a poor school. Its per capita endowment was a fraction of Northwestern's last I checked, which may have been several decades ago. Princeton always seemed like the daddy, and there are a few niche colleges like Grinnell that sit on yuge per capita endowments. Oberlin was also rich per capita IIRC, and Rice was so rich it gave free tuition to Texas residents until recently. Harvard endowment is yuge but IIRC they also borrowed heavily against it like UofC. Not sure Princeton ever had to do that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49192860) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 8:39 PM Author: passionate kitty cat foreskin https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2bswze3jqckhucjb7oe0w/culture/how-university-of-chicago-howard-other-endowments-are-tackling-asset-managements-big-problem (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193045) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 8:44 PM Author: passionate kitty cat foreskin Btw, it isn’t the bonds that sink them. It isn’t the debt. It’s the empty hallways where no firm comes. The students sit with their useless résumés and their borrowed money and their bad degrees. Without OCI they are cattle without a market. In 2025 a boy leaves Hyde Park with his parchment and his pride and he earns $27,000k. That is the joke. The debt is theater. The real rot is that there is no ladder out. The school takes their money, borrows more, and laughs. Debt on debt. Pride on pride. It is all a con. And the worst of it is the students believe they are different. They are not. They are broke and ordinary. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193057) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 2:15 PM Author: Aphrodisiac prole house I used my STEM degree out of college to make dick but then my buddy got me into a sales job and I was instantly making $100K. I quickly was made a sales manager and was making $150k. I hired this dork (I have no idea why) who after about a month criticized how I ran my 17 employee sales team and said "you didn't even go to business school. I went to the University of Chicago business school." I said "well why can't you sell anything then?" He either quit or was fired within weeks. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194582) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 7:57 PM Author: cowshit What a Joke imho (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49195447) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:00 PM Author: emerald alcoholic fortuitous meteor "And yet, after a brief amelioration, the faculty-student ratio at the University of Chicago has gotten worse nearly every year from 2011 to 2024, for the very simple reason that the University of Chicago placed itself so deeply in debt it could conceive no other way out. (There were plenty of ways out.)" Ljl |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:10 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy adventurous box office ratface I kept waiting for the authors to suggest one other way out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193292) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:24 PM Author: Odious philosopher-king (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193320) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:14 PM Author: Provocative Tantric Area Free markets will handle this fine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193302) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 2:17 PM Author: Aphrodisiac prole house it would have. U of C wouldn't be in this position without federally guaranteed student loans. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194590) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:25 PM Author: Galvanic Stag Film Personal Credit Line I used to work there. The University spent a lot of money on new buildings and “invested in the community” in an effort to encourage more students/professors to live close to campus. There was a revolving door at CFO. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193321) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:38 PM Author: Odious philosopher-king WE NEED MO MONEY FO DEM COMMUNITY N FACULTY PROGRAMZ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193357) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:50 PM Author: exciting orchestra pit masturbator I never understood why firms are quick to replace CFOs. its LJL. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194533) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:42 PM Author: snowy arousing theater stage “more teaching will be done by people with no formal contact with research.”
That’s actually a positive shift. Many professors dislike teaching, aren’t particularly good at it, and view it as an obligation that distracts from their research. Better to have classes taught by instructors whose sole focus is teaching. |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 11:23 PM Author: Orchid therapy You can't respect a college "professor" that doesn't do research. The whole bit is premised on them being smarter than you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193484) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 12:05 AM Author: Crusty jew athletic conference most college freshmen have no idea what research their prof does, or are even aware of the publish-or-perish promotion model. do you think they respect a checked out boomer who doesn't explain things well because he published a few journal articles 10 people read? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193551) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 12:17 AM Author: Bat-shit-crazy adventurous box office ratface Yes you can. The University of Paris used to treat lecturing as a bloodssport where students were invited to critique the lecturer and find gaps in his knowledge. A good teacher was a lecturer who could take the heat and dish it back. One guy was so good his adversaries castrated him
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Abelard
Didn't "publish" SHIT until after he was castrated. Or if he did it's not what aggro'd the other faculty in Paris |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 10:55 PM Author: Lascivious chest-beating hominid becky It’s been downhill ever since Karlstack left (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193408) |
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Date: August 17th, 2025 11:25 PM Author: Filthy Supple Hall Pull up their 990 and look at the reported salaries. Pretty juicy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49193486) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 12:04 AM Author: pontificating excitant hospital psychic $40 million in annual payroll toward sinecures for 29 Boomers. Almost $3.5 million to the former president. Not a single giant sports contract on the list, just all admins and professional school leaders.
Two of whom must be delighted to have their line items unreadable because they got cut off between pages of the PDF. |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 12:16 PM Author: Filthy Supple Hall Salaries are very fat compared to other top tier universities. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194414) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 12:19 PM Author: Cordovan trust fund toaster boomers thanklessly pillaging future gens, we salute thee (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194420) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:16 PM Author: Sooty insecure mediation son of senegal Academic staff 3,418 (2023)
Administrative staff 23,217 (2023)
Students 19,287 (2024) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:27 PM Author: Cerebral silver point this cannot possibly be right, they cannot possibly have EIGHT TIMES as many admin staff as academics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194494) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:31 PM Author: Cordovan trust fund toaster ~10k is hospital staff, which hospital is net profitable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194502) |
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Date: August 18th, 2025 1:34 PM Author: khaki know-it-all set explains why they started selling admissions via summer program + ed0 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5763372&forum_id=2/en-en/#49194504) |