Faculty Association of Ocean County College

03/28/2026

“Admin, Staff Raises Outpace Inflation While Faculty Salaries Lag”

Is this a shock to anyone?? Faculty are the backbone of every college yet get jammed up on pay every time.

Shame on administrators who most students couldn’t piack out of a lineup.

New data from CUPA-HR shows that all higher ed employees earn less than they did prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

02/13/2026

https://www.nj.com/education/2026/02/this-nj-college-just-cut-21-jobs-after-a-painful-drop-in-enrollment.html

The school has lost more than 1,000 students since the pandemic amid mounting financial pressures.

02/04/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/us/professors-classroom-surveillance-politics.html

Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain.

01/29/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/opinion/conservative-campus-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.20Me.w4ngW5Mjcs3W&smid=nytcore-ios-share

If college education is merely a transaction, educators — and facts — are vulnerable.

01/15/2026

Are we great yet?

Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.

09/01/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/trump-unions-labor.html

Why the labor movement needs to act like its future is under grave threat.

08/04/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/magazine/trump-community-college-anti-dei.html

Measures intended to punish elite universities are inflicting collateral damage on the nation’s two-year colleges, which educate 40 percent of all undergraduates.

07/18/2025

“The problem with liberal education in today’s academy does not lie with our students. The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves.”

Under the guise of keeping the lights on.

Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.

06/14/2025

“All of this left the scores of families that received similar offers scratching their heads. “It’s almost like they’ve turned into used car salesmen,” said Mr. Berger, whose daughter is sticking with Penn State.”

The university seems to have misjudged what some families would pay. Next year, maybe applicants should play their own game of chicken with such schools.

05/22/2025