Machiavelli’s Guide to the PT Problem

The following is satire, for those who don’t understand. “I, Niccolo Machiavelli, would like to lend my genius to solving “The Part-Time Problem” in American colleges. Part-timers are multiplying like… well use your own imagination. But we must deal with this issue in a smart way, a subtle way, a way even that they will embrace, or at least not complain about effectively…. The basic tools we need are a carrot and a stick. The carrot? It will be full-time “positions.” Not full-time work, of course, because anybody can do “work.” We need instead to have “positions,” which sounds much […]