Professor what you describe is a closed economy, you got taxpayers dollars, student dollars, and alumni dollars and prices will rise to meet the available funds. Leave no dollar unused. 💰💲💰
But if you think your gowns are expensive you should see what The Church and its suppliers charge my brother, who is a priest, for his vestments…
I'm in Rome right now, and yesterday I passed the Catholic store where my brother (a Deacon) bought some garb when he visited me here last year. The prices were eye-watering for some simple seasonal stoles. He bought 4, but heck he's a lawyer. I can't imagine what the robes run. I wonder whether there are Temu knockoffs?
Another instance of the older generations pulling up the ladder bwhind then: as a student inasked how they afford the $1500 regalia, and mentors told me they just used their start up funds. When later i got tenure track jobs with start up funds, they told me it could no longer be used towards those work-related items.
I'm a total stolen-valor academic. I've been a volunteer commencement Marshal for 63 ceremonies, and now I'm both that and a paid name-reader.
BUT I have no PhD; Masters is the terminal degree in my discipline. So they give me a doctorate robe to wear, the funny tam hat, and a PhD hood that is the default hood colors for this university.
I do love commencement. I get it all the garb rent-free, and get paid a lot of money for a few hours of fun "work" (I would do it for free), and it's the happiest day of the year. I do feel bad about the racket. I had no idea what that shit cost!
Professor what you describe is a closed economy, you got taxpayers dollars, student dollars, and alumni dollars and prices will rise to meet the available funds. Leave no dollar unused. 💰💲💰
But if you think your gowns are expensive you should see what The Church and its suppliers charge my brother, who is a priest, for his vestments…
I'm in Rome right now, and yesterday I passed the Catholic store where my brother (a Deacon) bought some garb when he visited me here last year. The prices were eye-watering for some simple seasonal stoles. He bought 4, but heck he's a lawyer. I can't imagine what the robes run. I wonder whether there are Temu knockoffs?
Huh....I wondered about the professor in the cowboy hat at my son's graduation. And many wore tennis shoes!
Another instance of the older generations pulling up the ladder bwhind then: as a student inasked how they afford the $1500 regalia, and mentors told me they just used their start up funds. When later i got tenure track jobs with start up funds, they told me it could no longer be used towards those work-related items.
I'm a total stolen-valor academic. I've been a volunteer commencement Marshal for 63 ceremonies, and now I'm both that and a paid name-reader.
BUT I have no PhD; Masters is the terminal degree in my discipline. So they give me a doctorate robe to wear, the funny tam hat, and a PhD hood that is the default hood colors for this university.
I do love commencement. I get it all the garb rent-free, and get paid a lot of money for a few hours of fun "work" (I would do it for free), and it's the happiest day of the year. I do feel bad about the racket. I had no idea what that shit cost!
I teach nursing, and the specialty charges (looking at you, ATI) are obscene. I'm sure every discipline has its own version of this. Bananas.