Richard Zhang
After students cope with their financial hardships, they are looking forward to a great year with expanding their knowledge, gaining the freshmen 15, and going to their first frat party. However, their eagerness came to an end when the professors walked out on them. The Associate Press reports Oakland University, located in Michigan, closed indefinitely due to the freezing of the university professors’ salaries. Unless the school officials come to an agreement with the professors’ union, 18,000 students will be without an education that they paid for. The strike comes after a recent $100,000 raise of the university president. All talks for a new contract with the professors broke down, and 450 faculty members walked out.
(image from Associated Press)
As the cost of attending a university continues to rise in this sluggish economy, students and teachers are at their limits of tolerance. They understand that the economy is very weak and everyone has to make sacrifices. But, there is only so much they can take. School officials must realize that there is always a limit to how much they can cut. Obviously, freezing professors’ salary isn’t the way to go, especially after they raised the president’s salary. In this economy, the goal is to do anything to survive. In order to survive, the institution must become one, rather than bickering amongst themselves and fail. The president and the school board is at fault on this issue. the school board should have made freezing professors' salary a last resort. The school board should apologize and resume school as soon as possible so that the students can do what they paid for.
After students cope with their financial hardships, they are looking forward to a great year with expanding their knowledge, gaining the freshmen 15, and going to their first frat party. However, their eagerness came to an end when the professors walked out on them. The Associate Press reports Oakland University, located in Michigan, closed indefinitely due to the freezing of the university professors’ salaries. Unless the school officials come to an agreement with the professors’ union, 18,000 students will be without an education that they paid for. The strike comes after a recent $100,000 raise of the university president. All talks for a new contract with the professors broke down, and 450 faculty members walked out.
(image from Associated Press)As the cost of attending a university continues to rise in this sluggish economy, students and teachers are at their limits of tolerance. They understand that the economy is very weak and everyone has to make sacrifices. But, there is only so much they can take. School officials must realize that there is always a limit to how much they can cut. Obviously, freezing professors’ salary isn’t the way to go, especially after they raised the president’s salary. In this economy, the goal is to do anything to survive. In order to survive, the institution must become one, rather than bickering amongst themselves and fail. The president and the school board is at fault on this issue. the school board should have made freezing professors' salary a last resort. The school board should apologize and resume school as soon as possible so that the students can do what they paid for.
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