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2025-03-14 Government Corruption

Johns Hopkins University says it’s laying off 2,000 employees due to Trump cuts

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

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I am happy they are winding down strong>internationally, work using US Taxpayer $$$$. Maybe the strong>international will now pay for what it gets free, at our expense.

Out of curiosity, were they charging for the services paid for by the US Taxpayers?

If so how about a refund?

Posted by NN2N1 2025-03-14 04:19|| 2025-03-14 04:19|| Front Page Top

#2 How Administrative Bloat is Killing American Higher Education

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-03-14 04:21|| 2025-03-14 04:21|| Front Page Top

#3 They’ll lay off the teachers and keep the administration bloat.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-03-14 08:57|| 2025-03-14 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 ^Can't fire tenured faculty.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-03-14 09:00|| 2025-03-14 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Don’t have to fire tenured faculty when you get rid of faculty positions, Grom, and then shut down the department. Over the past decade, my sister has twice been the last man standing after the university retrenched. This May when she turns out the lights and locks up, she’ll leave academia, too — and she teaches computer programming, not the fluff courses we all love to mock.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-14 10:32|| 2025-03-14 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 ^😎

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-03-14 11:14|| 2025-03-14 11:14|| Front Page Top

#7 If you have no pay for classes to ~~indoctrinate~~ teach, grants to whore, facilities to use, or access to internal communications...you are effectively fired

Posted by Frank G 2025-03-14 12:00|| 2025-03-14 12:00|| Front Page Top

#8 We need to face the fact that we're not all cut out for college. It's for people whose families can afford to support them while they stay in school until their mid-20s and for people who have an aptitude for science, technology, engineering and math. If you're not one of those people you'd be better off going directly into a trade of some sort.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-03-14 12:12|| 2025-03-14 12:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Bypass college. Bypass frickin high school. Get into an apprenticeship program to be a plumber. You'll be making big bucks and laughing at all your friends who are still studying French literature at the university.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-03-14 12:15|| 2025-03-14 12:15|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 Word.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-03-14 12:37|| 2025-03-14 12:37|| Front Page Top

#11 It's for people whose families can afford to support them

I would not be surprised if at least half of Rantburgers paid for college mostly or entirely on their own.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-03-14 14:08|| 2025-03-14 14:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Another prestigious PRIVATE institution on the welfare? In Baltimore yet. Who'd have thunk it?

Posted by Regular joe 2025-03-14 14:48|| 2025-03-14 14:48|| Front Page Top

#13 #11; the VA was central to my getting through college. Voc Rehab.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-03-14 15:19|| 2025-03-14 15:19|| Front Page Top

#14 John Hopkins has an endowment fund of over 13 Billion dollars. But they don't want to dip into their own pocket to pay their employees - they want someone else to pay for their own staff.

Posted by Clem+Elmish4239 2025-03-14 15:46|| 2025-03-14 15:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Say $50k/year at 2,000 employees = $100million

Is that part of a grande $800million 'grant', or $800million went to just Johns Hopkins, and if so where is the rest of the money?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-03-14 16:11|| 2025-03-14 16:11|| Front Page Top

#16 I would not be surprised

I had two jobs, an overloaded schedule of 15 STEM hours, showered at the gym and slept in a garage stall.

Best boogie time ever.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-03-14 18:31|| 2025-03-14 18:31|| Front Page Top

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