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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: At top universities, Hillary has gotten 83% of ALL faculty, administration, and employee donations, [View all]Human101948
(3,457 posts)59. Many outside of the campuses would see the Professors as coddled
Unless they teach summer school, they are off between May and September and they enjoy long breaks during the school year, including a month over Christmas and New Years and another chunk of time in the spring. Even when school is in session they dont spend too many hours in the classroom. For tenure-track professors, there is some pressure to publish books and articles, but deadlines are few. Working conditions tend to be cozy and civilized and there are minimal travel demands, except perhaps a non-mandatory conference or two. As for compensation, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median salary for professors is $62,000, not a huge amount of money but enough to live on, especially in a university town.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/01/03/the-least-stressful-jobs-of-2013/#218044ed51ff
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At top universities, Hillary has gotten 83% of ALL faculty, administration, and employee donations, [View all]
pnwmom
May 2016
OP
I heard she got almost as much from Green Energy firms as she has from oil too......
bettyellen
May 2016
#6
Oh, really? Then how are we supposed to get the governors to take the free Medicaid money?
pnwmom
May 2016
#14
With Dems like you pushing their agenda the Repubs don't have to work so hard...
Human101948
May 2016
#57
I confused nothing -- I used the wording from the article. Sorry if it confused you.
pnwmom
May 2016
#25
She gets the free press, people! Bernie spends more because otherwise they make him invisible.
flor-de-jasmim
May 2016
#26
In your long experience here, you see that this place is becoming Free Republic?
FSogol
May 2016
#60