Combat Administrative Bloat: Require Public Colleges to Spend 80% of Revenues on Instruction

by P.D. Lesko One college president told the local newspaper that his college was lowering the number of hours per week adjunct faculty could teach from 30 to 29 for a single reason: to skirt the new federal regulations that are associated with the 2014 full-scale implementation of Obamacare. The college president said his institution couldn’t afford the $6 million dollars it would be forced to pay to provide health insurance to its 200 adjunct faculty. So, the administration has decided to cut the number of hours adjuncts may teach to under 30 hours per week and then hire more […]