In Acholi, a language of the Acholi people of Northern Uganda, “can ponwyi” literally translates as “disaster and poverty teach you.” (Allen, “Postscript: a kind of peace and an exported war,” 283)* This might put…
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Some “Instructors” Are Indeed Overpaid: Jay’s Endowed Aggression
So, the representative of the worst among us (academic class), Jay P. Greene, has a “friend” post on an Heritage Institute report that public school teachers are overpaid which is titled “Are Public School Teachers Underpaid?” …
Higher Ed Privileges and Rewards Business Ed
I was looking at the HT database of salaries for Indiana University employees and discovered something interesting: a lot of people at IU make a lot of money. Nearly 1,000 employees make over $100,000.00 per…
The Game of Life: IU’s Newest HR Consultant
This morning, as I was reading the front page of the HT I overheard my kids and a friend playing “Life.” Someone landed on “you learn CPR,” and I grumbled to myself about just going through…