Is it time to occupy higher education: Politics, the AAUP and the fight against SB 5

1. Is it time to occupy higher education?: Politics, the AAUP and the fight against SB 5 Rudy Fichtenbaum Professor of Economics Wright State University

2. Full time and part time faculty

3. Sources of revenue

4. What is the common good?

5. What is happening to college graduates?

6. Why get an education?

7. New College Graduates Barely Earning More

8. Health & Pension Coverage for Recent College Graduates

9. Educational Attainment

10. Wage Productivity Gap is Growing

11. Top universities preserve the position of the better-off

12. Income matters more for college completion than test scores

13. Mobility is declining

14. Downward mobility is greater for African-Americans

15. Escaping the bottom

16. Average Income per Family

17. Who wins and who loses

18. Wall Street Bonuses

19. Them and us

20. Average household income before taxes

21. Average household income after taxes

22. Wage Income Shares for P90-95, P95-99, and P99-100, 1927-2008

23. CEO Pay versus Average Wage Income, 1970-2006

24. CEO v. Worker Compensation 1965-2009

25. The Top Decile Income Share in the United States, 1917-2008

26. Decomposing the Top Decile US Income Share into 3 Groups, 1913-2008

27. Top 0.1% Income Shares in the U.S., France, and the U.K.,1913-2007

29. Wealth is skewed toward the super-rich

30. Top Wealth shares in the US based on Forbes 400 Wealthiest Americans

31. Change in real hourly wage for men

32. Change in real hourly wage for women

33. State Appropriations for Higher Education: Total Appropriations in Constant 2010 Dollars (in Billions), Appropriations per Public FTE Student in Constant 2010 Dollars, and Public FTE Enrollment (in Millions), 1980-81 to 2010-11 SOURCE: The College Board, Trends in College Pricing 2011, Figure 10B.

34. Average State Appropriations for Higher Education per $1,000 in Personal Income, 1990-91 to 2010-11 SOURCE: The College Board, Trends in College Pricing 2011, Figure 11A.

35. Health care spending

36. Growth of Medicaid expenditures

37. Medicaid spending

38. Incarceration rates

39. Expenditures by criminal justice function

40. Federal taxes

41. State taxes have not risen

42. Job Loss in the Great Recession

43. Unemployment

44. Jobs Short Fall

45. Financial wealth v. tangible wealth

46. Decline in household wealth over the Great Recession

47. Rise and fall of union density

48. Rise & fall of union membership

49. Private v. Public Union Density

50. Private v. Public Union Membership

51. Union Coverage Decreases Inequality

52. Distribution of stock ownership

53. High School Graduates Earn Less

54. Change in real hourly wage

55. Household debt soars

56. Consumer credit and home equity loans

57. Rich keep the debt load stable

58. Rising Student Debt

62. Growth in student loans adjusted for inflation

65. Rising tuition

66. Conclusions of the Delta Cost Study on the causes for rising tuition The main reason tuition has been rising faster than college costs is that colleges had to make up for reductions in the per-student subsidy state taxpayers sent colleges. In 2006, the last year for which Wellman had data, state taxpayers sent $7,078 per student to the big public research universities. That's $1,270 less (after accounting for inflation) than they sent in 2002.

67. Conclusions of the Delta Cost Study on the causes for rising tuition Public universities have been reining in overall spending per student in recent years. Flagship public universities' spending per student has risen from about $12,400 in 1995 to $13,800 in 2006 after accounting for inflation. But since 2002, spending at public colleges has generally not exceeded inflation.

68. Conclusions of the Delta Cost Study on the causes for rising tuition Increases in spending were driven mostly by higher administration, maintenance, and student services costs. Public universities spent almost $4,000 per student per year on administration, support, and maintenance in 2006, up more than 13 percent, in real terms over 1995. And they spent another $1,200 a year on services such as counseling, which was up 23 percent. Meanwhile, they spent about $8,700 a year on classroom instruction for each student, up about 9 percent.

69. Conclusions of the Delta Cost Study on the causes for rising tuition Big private universities, powered by tuition and endowment increases, have increased spending dramatically while public schools have languished. Total educational spending per student at private research universities has jumped by almost 10 percent since 2002 to more than $33,000. During that same period, public university total spending was comparatively flat and totaled less than $14,000 a year.

70. Issue 2/ SB 5 prohibits public employees from striking; eliminates binding arbitration as a way to settle contract disputes for safety forces; requires performance�based pay for teachers and other public employees; provide a minimum that public employees must pay for pensions and health insurance; allow the governing body (public employer) to impose its own last offer to settle a contract dispute.

71. Issue 2/ SB 5 Issue 2 puts all our families� safety at risk. It makes it harder for emergency responders, police and firefighters to negotiate for critical safety equipment and training that protects us all. Issue 2 will make our nursing shortage worse. �It makes it illegal for nurses, hospital and clinic workers to demand reasonable and safe staffing levels�so nurses will juggle more patients while their salaries and benefits are cut. Issue 2 take collective bargaining rights away from college faculty declaring them to be managers.