{"id":708,"date":"2010-07-28T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T21:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=708"},"modified":"2010-07-28T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T21:30:48","slug":"is-this-talking-point-finally-dying-overpaid-professors-in-their-cushy-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Is this talking point finally dying? &#8220;Overpaid Professors in Their Cushy Jobs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s<em> Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Goodbye-to-Those-Overpaid-P\/123633\/\">here<\/a>) has a piece by Ben Gose, that starts with this:<a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/frink2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-709\" title=\"frink2\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/frink2.gif\" alt=\"frink2\" width=\"127\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/frink2.gif 212w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/frink2-90x150.gif 90w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/frink2-181x300.gif 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The notion that college professors lead easy lives isn&#8217;t quite dead, but it may soon be history.<\/p>\n<p>A decade or two ago, it wasn&#8217;t hard to find state legislators,  pushing for university budget cuts, who complained about the leisurely  lives of academics. Try a Google search for such criticism today, and  not much turns up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that he&#8217;s right! The article is worth reading, along with the comments.<\/p>\n<p>Just one little note: Gose talks about intense discussion in the University of California system over whether the faculty should walk out on a furlough day. The serious discussions I heard here were repeatedly about whether we would actually be forbidden to work on official furlough days.<\/p>\n<p>PS: For those who don&#8217;t know the Simpsons, the image is Professor Frink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Chronicle of Higher Education (here) has a piece by Ben Gose, that starts with this: The notion that college professors lead easy lives isn&#8217;t quite dead, but it may soon be history. A decade or two ago, it wasn&#8217;t&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=708\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23,7],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context","tag-faculty","tag-furloughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}