SUNY Oswego Teachers Become “expendable assets”
SUNY Oswego announced today that most of the non-tenured professors and instructors will be let go following the end of the current semester due to the drastic budget cuts.
“Here we are, already working for bones because of all the budget cuts throughout the years yet they have enough money for the gratuitous expense of a multimillion dollar campus center.” Says Professor John Doe “If I feel anything at this point, it is, to not trust the government. Three or four years ago, they figured we were in good enough shape for this beautiful structure. I was fooled along with SUNY Oswego. It’s amazing how quickly the government can make its citizens victims”
This sort of blow wasn’t only taxing on the teachers, but as the students as well.
“The hardest thing for a student it to develop a strong relationship with their professor, both professionally and on a personal level.” Says Robert Waloven “Students have to ask themselves two things, What is the point of coming back to a school where their favorite teachers are treated as expendable assets and second, if they are forced in to treating their faculty this way, what can the students expect from now until the day they close. It’s too unpredictable to pay this sort of money for something that is both completely not only your hands, but the institution as a whole.”
The slow and steady decline of something great is never something that is going to be pretty. The fact that the government assumes they “know” what happens to be expendable will continue to hurt this state along with this country. It’s sort of like “taxation without representation.” This is something that must stop or a true revolution won’t only be possible, but eminent.
Be advised that this is part of an Alternate Reality Game developed as a class project.
-Robert Waloven
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