By: Karl Spaulding

Karl Spaulding
Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:33:19 +0000

Lots of good comments here!

Ms. Essig and her fellow journalists seem to be doing a great job in this series as well as the last one (see the “Special Reports” heading under the masthead for those). This is indeed what it should be all about (well, besides the Hokey Pokey!).

I’d also echo the situation with most OSU staff, who don’t earn close to a six figure income, or receive any five figure bonuses. Those bonuses, at from 6 to 25% (or more?), are insane, especially in our compromised economy, and with all the waste here at OSU. Now consider their effect on “morale.” Just read the comments.

What I wrote above also applies to most of the actual, teaching faculty, and certainly the GTAs.

We’re the ones who pick up the trash. We’re the ones who cook the food. We’re the ones who watch out for safety. We’re the ones who teach and grade the students. We’re the ones who navigate the paperwork. We’re the ones who tend to the sick. We’re the ones who MAKE OSU WORK.

And we’re also the ones whose taxes pay the bonuses! Ain’t that sweet?

It doesn’t stop at pay, either. In fact, pay isn’t one of my complaints. I like my job, for the most part, and I love and respect REAL higher educational efforts, as both my parents were TEACHERS.

There’s more to life than money, but you wouldn’t know it from the inflated Wall Street salaries and bonuses around here. As a PUBLIC SERVANT, I’d be ASHAMED to be making over $200-300K per year, plus BONUSES. We’re supposed to be providing EDUCATION to the next generations, not enhancing Wall Street Cred for up and coming Junior Executives.

Maybe some of our Leadership will see these comments and participate in order to provide their honest perspective! You know, as in “dialog” concerning “higher education?”

Don’t even get me started on the “secret presidential search” they concocted, whilst ignoring Ohio’s Sunshine Law.

We need to reform Higher Education, and not just at OSU.

Karl
Always a Student, sometimes a Teacher