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Another brick in the wall.....

University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Joan Gabel's base salary was increased to $1.25 million annually, effective January 1, 2026, a significant boost from her previous $950,000, after a vote by the Board of Trustees in December 2025. This is a 32% raise. Add this to all the other folks in administration and.....wow!!
 
nickaluch said:
After putting 3 daughters through private college I will say the price is insane something definitely needs to change
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Universities did a great job with lobbyist to have US taxpayer back student loans. This made it super easy to raise tuition.

When it is someone else's money, very easy to see how this happens.

Connect the dots.
 
One of my boys did one year at the University of Pittsburgh at Bardford. I believe it was a community college campus at one point in time. Really nice little campus now. That one year cost him $25-30K to dorm there and they "gave" him in-state rate. Unless the kid has the drive and the discipline and the true want for college, I suggest they go a different route.
 
The hell do any of them need a million a year for? The waste, theft, and fraud is beyond maddening at this point. Surgeons go through the educational equivalent of hell in comparison to these administrative clowns to save a many lives but don't even get a third of what she gets per year at times.
 
JavierH19 said:
The hell do any of them need a million a year for? The waste, theft, and fraud is beyond maddening at this point. Surgeons go through the educational equivalent of hell in comparison to these administrative clowns to save a many lives but don't even get a third of what she gets per year at times.
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She has been criticized by students and professors for censorship of certain thoughts and ideas on campus, so this must be a reward for that.
 
Boomer said:
Another brick in the wall.....

University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Joan Gabel's base salary was increased to $1.25 million annually, effective January 1, 2026, a significant boost from her previous $950,000, after a vote by the Board of Trustees in December 2025. This is a 32% raise. Add this to all the other folks in administration and.....wow!!
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It is "state-related" university. Basically, they offer guarantees to the state regarding the cost of tuition, while in reality, they are a private entity.
Strictly from an enrollment perspective, they are doing far better than most universities. The problem is not Pitt; the problem is the cost of tuition at your local state school.
 
I cannot wrap my head around the college prices I hear people pay. Our local Community Colleges are currently tuition free. Top programs for transfer to 4 year schools and great 2 year programs for mechanics, nursing, Police work and much more.

I am happy to support this. My Computer Science and Business studies at De Anza College in Cupertino made me very employable (and qualified) for Programmer Analyst career work in Silicon Valley. That school changed my life.
 
JeffKeryk said:
I cannot wrap my head around the college prices I hear people pay. Our local Community Colleges are currently tuition free. Top programs for transfer to 4 year schools and great 2 year programs for mechanics, nursing, Police work and much more.

I am happy to support this. My Computer Science and Business studies at De Anza College in Cupertino made me very employable (and qualified) for Programmer Analyst career work in Silicon Valley. That school changed my life.
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Instead of tuition free, is it in fact tax payer funded tuition and/or endowment funded tuition?
 
The President of Brown University 🙄 has a 3 million dollar salary and the university has an 8 billion dollar endowment and tuition costs near $100 K per year. I’m aware it’s a private Ivy League school but………
 
JeffKeryk said:
Of course. And I am happy to support our local Community Colleges. They greatly enrich our lives. And saved mine. I am not sure how I repay that.
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Community Colleges are the greatest resource for higher education out there. Pretty much the last bastion of being able to pay for it while working in classes for those who don't already have established careers.
I'll have about $460,000 in tuition and fees when I finish dental school. While It's exorbitant, it will get paid back. Some people are upwards of $700,000 out of professional school now and i can't imagine how they'll pull it off. 200k for most bachelors from many institutions just does not make sense to me either.
 
GON said:
Universities did a great job with lobbyist to have US taxpayer back student loans. This made it super easy to raise tuition.

When it is someone else's money, very easy to see how this happens.

Connect the dots.
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This along with every parent these days demanding that their kids attend college. Doesn't matter if the kids are intelligent enough to succeed in traditional college level courses, or remedial and need dumbed down college course with automatic grades of A and B to be granted to all. But they all want to go. No way the white collar Corporate business world can employ all of these so-called college grads.
 
SeaJay said:
No way the white collar Corporate business world can employ all of these so-called college grads.
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By the sounds of it, they aren’t trying to. Lots of accusations of ghost job posting, and stories of submitting hundreds of resumes.

Yet due to high enrollment, it is now a basic requirement. Or a good filter.
 
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