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2016-02-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

Chicago State University Sends Layoff Notices To All Employees

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-02-28 04:15|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Unless it convinces one to leave, higher education really doesn't appear to be working in Cook County.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-28 06:51|| 2016-02-28 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 No real loss here, however, having exhausted the trivial cases, the ~~profligate spenders~~ legislature will move on to shutting down public sanitation and public safety. You can try it for yourself in SimCity...

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-02-28 07:14|| 2016-02-28 07:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Missing that old Magic Money Tree(tm).

Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-28 08:24|| 2016-02-28 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 More of this would help clean up the PC mess.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-02-28 09:07|| 2016-02-28 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 P2k, and that's why they're called credential mills.

Who needs a campus or professors? Just get a couple of administrators and a printing press (needs to be fancier than an ink-jet).

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Posted by AlanC 2016-02-28 09:30|| 2016-02-28 09:30|| Front Page Top

#6 They have color laser printers now AlanC. Don't need a press.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-02-28 10:41|| 2016-02-28 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7 P2k, that's what I call the Scarecrow Principle. You don't need a good education, all you need is a diploma.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-02-28 10:53|| 2016-02-28 10:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry CF but laser printers don't do that classy embossing. ;^)

Posted by AlanC 2016-02-28 12:44|| 2016-02-28 12:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I foresee a boom in calligraphy and vellum document production, then.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-02-28 14:24|| 2016-02-28 14:24|| Front Page Top

#10 should our statehouse fail to fund us, and put us in a position where we have to be compromised, we would need to have the flexibility and the legal position such that a reduction in force could take place,”

tl;dr: Some political gamesmanship. They are not in financial trouble yet, but a mass layoff sounds scary.

Posted by SteveS 2016-02-28 15:35|| 2016-02-28 15:35|| Front Page Top

#11 "...should our statehouse ~~fail to fund us~~, refuse to meet our demands and put us in a position where we have to be compromised, we would need to have the flexibility and the legal position such that a reduction in force could take place,”

Fixed that.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-02-28 16:48|| 2016-02-28 16:48|| Front Page Top

#12 They'll shut down police & fire depts. in order to fund it.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-02-28 17:02|| 2016-02-28 17:02|| Front Page Top

#13 ..don't forget the water treatment plants.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-28 17:08|| 2016-02-28 17:08|| Front Page Top

#14 That would be nice AH. A fine art.

Posted by Dale 2016-02-28 18:50|| 2016-02-28 18:50|| Front Page Top

#15 been around for about 150 years

most famous attendee was Kanye West (who didn't graduate)

Posted by lord garth 2016-02-28 19:56|| 2016-02-28 19:56|| Front Page Top

#16 They've also capped the lottery payouts.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-02-28 22:35|| 2016-02-28 22:35|| Front Page Top

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