When you fail to study before exams...

[dfrecore]

Rant: What we really need is to stop the ridiculously extravagant expenditures that our public universities seem to think they need. University presidents don't need salaries like CEOs (of course CEOs aren't worth that money either).

At least with CEO's, they get paid based on making a company profitable and other things like that. If shareholders don't like what a CEO is paid, or don't think they are doing a good job, they get fired (people that don't like how a company operates sell their shares, prices go down, and the CEO takes the ultimate blame if that happens).

With public universities, it is our tax dollars paying them, but we have no say in whether or not they should get paid that amount. There is no way to get them fired if we don't like what they do. And the real problem is that they are not paid to try to make college more affordable for people or anything in the public's interest. They are just not accountable to the people who pay their salaries, and it stinks.