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Carr, a creative writing professor and self-described “ecofeminist” and “beach witch,” joined the medical school as an assistant professor of medical humanities and medical education
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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SIU medical school exists because, without it, there would be no other way to staff doctors throughout the rest of the state. NIU and SIU law schools are the same way. Virtually every lawyer you meet outside of the Chicago area attended one of those two schools. I would imagine its probably like this in most professions. NIU and SIU professionals generally have a tough time in the Chicago markets, because the best jobs are reserved for the carpetbaggers from the Big Ten, selective schools and for the elite positions, the Ivies. I’m personally neither a doctor nor a lawyer… Read more »
Nepotism despotism
rules the Lincoln land
Media mispedia
Heads buried in the sand
Tim and I went camping under a sky of blue
The girls were three and we were two
So I bucked one and Timbucktu
If the med school wants to hire Old Joe for his retirement side hustle and pass the savings onto the students just get in touch with Mark.
I think I’ll avoid any doctors coming out of this crazy institution. What a joke.
If you live within a 50 mile radius of Springfield, good luck with that. Lots of doctors around here either graduated from SIU Med or work for one of their various clinics/practice groups. That said, I don’t think it would be fair to hold this against older doctors who would have graduated 20 or 30 years ago.
Yes, doctors that graduate from the top medical schools can go anywhere they want, and generally choose the largest hospital groups or research institutions near the largest cities. Especially the suburban hospitals in upper-middle class areas, which have some of the best doctors around. The graduates of the lower ranked medical schools have fewer choices, and often remain closer to the law schools they graduated from. It all begins with their residency, as top ranked students from top law schools get placed at the largest and most pretigous institutions in big cities, and then smaller towns, and many lower ranked… Read more »
I said law schools but meant medical schools. LOL
Roses are red violets are blue and you stink to, I’m now a poetry professor.
SIU med school should use this whack job as a case study in their psychiatry department.