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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: wesfau2 on May 13, 2013, 09:47:53 AM
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According to NPR this morning Jay Gogue is the 2nd highest paid university president in the US ($2.5M/yr).
He came in second to Graham Spanier of PSU, whose numbers were inflated due to his giant severance package for allowing little kids to be assraped in the school's showers.
Are we getting our money's worth?
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No
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The fact that he's really the highest paid President surprises me. Don't know why exactly, just didn't realize it.
I guess the biggest beef most AU fans have is his reluctance or refusal to let Jacobs go when the overall athletic program is in the shitter, record-wise. We've all heard that Gogue is not big on athletics and doesn't like to get that involved with it. I believe it. However, you have to ask if that really defines his body of work as President? By all indications, the athletic department is generating revenue, and after extensive investigation, appears to be run clean. We can all bitch and gripe about how basketball and girl's softball suck, but there's not one of us who would give a rat's ass about any of that if the football team was competing for SEC championships.
Gogue has been President since what, 2007? In that time frame, Auburn's campus has literally been transformed and continues to go through unprecedented changes. I know that construction has seemingly always been going on, but the last few years have been unbelievable. I always wonder when they might get to a point where they stop and say, "Okay, this is the campus of Auburn University." Honestly, I have no idea how much or how little he has to do with all that but I assume as President, he has a good bit of influence. Hopefully, someone with more knowledge of that could comment.
Personally, I'd like to see him take a bigger interest and role in trying to get AU athletics back on track. Athletics, mainly football, is a common thread that really ties Auburn people together. But when I look around at Auburn and the progress and changes that are constantly going on, I have to think he's doing something right.
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He took over when SACS had just finished sticking their finger up our colon. I bet that has something to do with it.
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We waste too much money on the wrong folks in this state. It shows where our priorities lie. Not good for education to say the least. How many high school graduates from this state actually finish college? How does he increase the numbers? What is his real function? What does he produce? Can we sell to other countries what he produces? Will other countries buy what he produces? In other words, if we aren't producing anything we can sell overseas, we are all fucked. $1 trillion in loan debt for students and the big wigs within the institutions are invested in Sallie Mae, and thus, profit on both sides of the same coin. Capitalism my ass.
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We waste too much money on the wrong folks in this state. It shows where our priorities lie. Not good for education to say the least. How many high school graduates from this state actually finish college? How does he increase the numbers? What is his real function? What does he produce? Can we sell to other countries what he produces? Will other countries buy what he produces? In other words, if we aren't producing anything we can sell overseas, we are all fudgeed. $ 1 trillion in lon debt for students and the big wigs within the institutions are invested in Sallie Mae, and thus, profit on both sides of the same coin. Capitalism my ass.
You do know that Auburn is a school and not an importer/exporter business, right? If it was we would have hired Art Vandelay to be president.
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You do know that Auburn is a school and not an importer/exporter business, right? If it was we would have hired Art Vandelay to be president.
I thought you were in exports
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Well they certainly hold on to copyrights and grants like a corporation. They actually profit from research and are dependent on taxes to fund their operations while profiting from the private sector.
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You do know that Auburn is a school and not an importer/exporter business, right? If it was we would have hired Art Vandelay to be president.
and T-rexs would have roamed campus.
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http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2013/04/22/Firms-flocking-to-an-obscure-tax-loophole/UPI-86991366655677/?spt=hs&or=bn
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/12/8-companies-that-most-owe-workers-a-raise/2144013/
http://intellihub.com/2013/05/12/hp-emc-cisco-terminate-30300-jobs-globally/
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I thought you were in exports
Long matchsticks
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Well they certainly hold on to copyrights and grants like a corporation. They actually profit from research and are dependent on taxes to fund their operations while profiting from the private sector.
Is it just impossible for you to stay on topic? Or are you that ADD?
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Is it just impossible for you to stay on topic? Or are you that ADD?
How many people with ADD does it take to change a light bulb?
Want to play tennis?
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How many people with ADD does it take to change a light bulb?
Want to play tennis?
I know a really cool way to put down linoleum.
Hi, I'm Tom. Nice to meet you.
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How many people with ADD does it take to change a light bulb?
Want to play tennis?
The lights that stop me turn to stone.
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WTF...seriously. No university president deserves to be making that much coin, I don't care who they are.
Wesus Christo
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WTF...seriously. No university president deserves to be making that much coin, I don't care who they are.
Wesus Christo
Welcome to state gov't in Alabama. Good ole boys help each other out. I'm a good ole boy. How come I don't get anything? Well, except for being fudgeed by the PACT program.
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Welcome to state gov't in Alabama. Good ole boys help each other out. I'm a good ole boy. How come I don't get anything?. Well, except for being fucked by the PACT program.
PACT has been good to us so far. It's paid what it was supposed to for my daughter. But, I have a 12 year old. Who knows where it will be in 5-6 years when he's ready for teh universities.
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PACT has been good to us so far. It's paid what it was supposed to for my daughter. But, I have a 12 year old. Who knows where it will be in 5-6 years when he's ready for teh universities.
Thought he had plans for rodeo clown college?
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PACT has been good to us so far. It's paid what it was supposed to for my daughter. But, I have a 12 year old. Who knows where it will be in 5-6 years when he's ready for teh universities.
I have a 12 yr old too. Ã bought it with the explanation that it was prepaid tuition. It went like this.
Me: "So, let me get this straight. I pay this in full ($12k or something) and all of tuition and books are paid for when jr goes to the accepting in state colleges, right?
Pact rep: "Yes sir. That is right. All of books and tuition."
Me: "Where do I sign?"
Then the market tanks, it almost goes broke, etc. Bottom line, the court won't make the state stand behind what they promised but I must admit I didn't read the fine print. It's just what I was sold. A bill of goods. Buyer beware and I wasn't. I did it with the 12 yr old and 8 yr old but got smart and am doing a 529 for the 5 yr old. PACT was great early on when George Jr had it and they actually did what they said they would do.
All of my illegitimates aren't getting shit.
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When the market tanked and it looked like PACT might go in the dumper, I checked the fine print and yep, it had every right to go in the dumper and not a thing we could do about it. So much going back and forth but it appears that the ship has been somewhat righted. Not completely but better than what we all feared. My daughter is 22 and has been in and out of school, trying to make her way dancing/performing while she's still young. As a result, she's only completed about a year and a half of college. I have to say that PACT has paid everything it was supposed to up to this point.
I've got it for the 12 year old but like you, I've long since made other arrangements in putting money away for his schoolifying.
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My daughter is 22 and has been in and out of school, trying to make her way dancing/performing while she's still young.
They all say they're working their way through college...
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They all say they're working their way through college...
You mean I've been sending her $2,000.00 every month for.....son of a....
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You mean I've been sending her $2,000.00 every month for stripper boots?
I hear they are pretty expensive.
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You mean I've been sending her $2,000.00 every month for her boyfriend Pedro's coke habit.
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I hear abortions can be pretty expensive these days.
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I hear abortions can be pretty expensive these days.
Not really. There's this doc down on 3rd Avenue who runs a little clinic in his......
I mean, yeah they can be.