I think it is also important to examine the number of administration positions in a University that consume much of the budget.

This university is run by Bill Richardson Jr – and it means that cronies get very well paid positions that can never, ever be questioned while students are squeezed for fees again, and again, and again.

And. Not one of those overpaid useless administrators has offered to give a dime back to the university.

Cutting just ONE of those useless VP Cronies could provide a lot of scholarships – even if just for textbooks – to needy students.

The administration of this university is not focused on education, it is focused on lining pockets of insiders and entitlement. Schmidly: Yet Antother Entitlement Boomer.

I am a citizen of NM which means I pay state taxes every year? I disapprove of my money being used to pay a PR firm to attempt to clean up the mess that Locksley created. The rampant corruption and incompetence we see coming from the UNM administrators is more than New Mexicans (taxpayers) can stand; our tax dollars have funded this idiocy. President David Schmidly, AD-Paul Krebs, the VP of HR Helen Gonzales, HR investigator Shannon Garbiso should all be fired along with Mike Locksley.

Scandals and corruption are a big part of NM politics and radiate straight from the Richardson administration. UNM’s top dogs like Dave Schmidly and David Harris are purely political appointees who continue to demonstrate utter incompetence in all aspects of UNM administration. I have seen many good employees screwed with, lied to and lied on, by this and other upper level administrations. We as alumnus, parents, students, faculty and taxpayers need to force the regents to fire these vermin. Oh, I forgot the regents are appointed by Richardson.

Iwas an employee for UNM Administration & witnessed shameless and blatant cronieism by UNM’s key administrators and I am happy that I am no longer a part of that entire organization. What student’s? It was especially embarrassing to walk out to the VIP parking lot and see all the new Lexus’ and Mercedes parked there after the year end bonuses were paid out.

WOMEN AND PEACE STUDIES? Don’t renew contracts with classes based on gender like the WASTEFUL WOMEN STUDIES!

Another waste of a degree and time is the PEACE STUDIES! There are flyers around campus saying “THOUSAND$$$$” for aid to study that degree. ONE, THE PROFESSOR NEEDS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF STUDENTS TO JUSTIFY THOSE DEGREES AND TO OFFER THOSE CLASSES WHICH MEANS THEY ARE HAVING A HARD TIME FEELING THE CLASSROOMS! IT’S A WASTE ANYWAY!!!

Then there are the numerous WASTEFUL DEGREES LIKE POETRY! JILL HARJO, I think that’s her name, a former professor of poetry was making $45,000 for only a few classes!

Two years ago, UNM HIRED BLACK PANTHER DAVID HILLIARD! I went by his classes, ONLY TWO PER WEEK, and there were under ten students but I don’t know if any of those were “visiting” his class. HIS CLASS WAS TO LEARN HOW RAP MUSIC AND ACTIVISM IN THE COMMUNITY WERE TIED TOGETHER! IS THAT A WASTE? HE MADE AN EVEN $40,000 FOR TWO CLASSES??? Finnie Coleman, of the African-American studies was instrumental in hiring this WACK JOB! They even sponsored an event with MARK RUDD OF THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND AND EXTREME RADICAL who in some articles describe his learning terrorist tactics in CUBA to attack his own country!!!

THERE ARE SO MANY CLASSES THAT ARE BASED ON INDOCTRINATING YOU! THE DEAN IS A RADICAL LEFTIST WHO THEN HIRES A RADICAL PROFESSOR WHO THEN PREACHES RADICALISM IN CLASS TO MAKE YOU A RADICAL, ANTI-CAPITALIST, BLAME U.S., AND ALL THIS IN THE NAME OF EDUCATION AND DIVERSITY!!!

END ALL THESE STUPID CLASSES AND TEACHING A DEGREE THAT DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING AND THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF MONEY TO PAY OFF THE COACHES SALARIES AND PAYOFFS!!!

wow steve…I wonder whose been indoctrinating you? Sure, lets cut all of the classes which aren’t taught in lecture halls with a couple of hundred students because, after all, they are financially sustainable. In fact, lets cut all of the courses which fall outside of the business, law, and medical schools. who needs humanities anyway? I mean, this University isn’t really about education, its about getting a job, and how are you supposed to do that with a dirty hippie degree like ‘Peace Studies’?

the scary thing is how many people actually believe that garbage. Like our buddy steve. hope he’s not a close friend of the next governor, or im sure that they will do away with Women’s Studies (which you could certainly use a brush-up on, steve, they talk about subjugation n stuff) in favor of adding new sections of military appreciation taught by Oliver North.

lastly, what faculty member is making 200-300k a year? perhaps they should be placed in charge and we could get rid of any one with the title VP or Director. just a thought, and its probably bad form to leave the university in the hands of a bunch of reckless, liberal Ph.D.s.

I agree with both the last posters as there are good points in both.

Most of the classes Chavez is speaking about are electives to most degrees which means students aren’t forced to take them leaving only a handful of students in one class and 200 in another.

Women Studies is a biased area since it studies “Women” and if there is diversity, then there needs to be a “Men” studies along with all the other biased and racist classes based on the color of skin and race since they discriminate against others if they are not included in diversity.

I agree with Chavez concerning the Peace Studies degree. If I heard a fellow student tell me he/she was majoring in Peace Studies, I would probably laugh since they are spending thousands of dollars on tuition, books, housing, and transportation costs for a degree that wouldn’t even qualify that person to flip burgers. Do they learn how to make protest posters, learn how to shout “What do you want? When do you want it??” Seriously, I doubt that they actually learn how to communicate, negotiate, and reconcile differences between groups and countries that are at war, but they actually learn to side with a warring faction because their cause is more legitimate than another. They are surely not pacifists but activists and spending their college years on that is a total waste of time. Getting rid of those classes would save money for the university and most importantly, the parents, banks, loan institutions, and all UNM aid.

But is there a War Studies class taught by the likes of Oliver North? Some even say that in order to create peace, you must have war first so instead of making posters that say, “No Justice. No Peace” then it should be “No war. No peace?”

It would be interesting to have access to professors salaries and the number of classes they teach, preparation time for each class, and office hours which they never abide by. I wonder how Chavez got the salaries of Harjo and Hilliard but I wouldn’t be surprised with some faculty getting 200-300K a year which means they have tenure and like all professors that get tenure, they do as little as possible to get by since they are set for life. I bet if you find the professors with salaries over $75,000, you’ll rarely even see them on campus!

There are professors who use their classes as spouting out about a topic unrelated to the subject and I personally do not like it even if I agree with that point because there are surely students who don’t agree and have to keep their mouth shut or else they might risk alienating themselves from the class, fellow students, and the professor who could use your views to lower your grade.

We do need to get rid of this top heavy university and it does start in the administration.

I would also like to know of any Ph.D professors who are not liberals, leftists, and progressives. Maybe we could have all professors fill out a bio-sheet with a political stance question to find out where they stand which then opens up classroom discussions to political issues. I bet 99% of the professors stand to the Left. Can anyone prove me wrong?

hi mari,
i was being extremely sarcastic, and i think it led you to misinterpret my point…I dont believe that women’s studies should be discontinued. and the reason there is not a ‘men’s’ studies course is that history has already been recorded by men, and the rules of western society have been dictated by them for a few thousand years, its kind of like how we dont have history classes which study male presidents, you would just study presidents as they are all male.

also, there should not be cutting of any classes because it is not economical. the arguement that you couldnt get a job with a peace studies degree is preposterous, not because it isnt true, but have you tried getting a job with a political science, english, or psychology degree? pretty tough.

the economy sucks at the moment, and for large part because of a bunch of ass-hole business men, lawyers, and accountants. heres an idea, lets cut the business school and law school in an effort to fight the epidemic of douchebaggery in this country.

lastly Mari, Ph.D.‘s are liberal because they are smarter than you. its pretty hard to maintain a conservative view in any social science when you have read more than 2 books, and seen more than one country. and instead of looking at it from the warped perspective of left and right, how about we change it to right, and wrong. perhaps we should start hiring climate change deniers to our science department to give students a more ‘balanced’ opinion. who cares about the truth as long as the facts dont force me to admit that I dont know whats going on in the world around me.

The President hired a boatload of VP’s who make the big bucks. Most full-time faculty receive a reasonable, but not very high salary, — around 50-60,000 I think. But the faculty member who really ticks me off is poor Prof. Lisa Chavez, who was doing sex work with her students. She said she needed the money to make ends meet. So she had to work for sex sites, and posted ads on many websites, with sexual pictures whipping students! No lie. She tells students that’s what they should do to make money. If anyone needs a salary cut —- it’s Chavez. She’s got the sex work, anyway, so she really doesn’t need a flimsy professor salary. Since the high paid administration wouldn’t take any action against her, who knows what she’s doing now! What a mess UNM is.