tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post1090664451625212062..comments2024-03-11T00:31:41.186-07:00Comments on The Oregon Economics Blog: Oregon's Profligate Public Universities?Patrick Emersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17242234148546323374noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post-45356096570765737292009-01-27T10:22:00.000-08:002009-01-27T10:22:00.000-08:00Jeff, I guess the steam rises slowly. My adjustme...Jeff, I guess the steam rises slowly. My adjustments of the radiator do nothing. At least I don't have the problem I had in my old office which was too much heat: from Wednesday to Friday I used to have to keep the window wide open. So this is another problem - a terribly inefficient heating system which speaks to the real cost of deferred maintenance.Patrick Emersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242234148546323374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post-18759438804090834712009-01-26T21:14:00.000-08:002009-01-26T21:14:00.000-08:00Are you sure you've got your radiator adjusted rig...Are you sure you've got your radiator adjusted right? <BR/><BR/>I'm on the floor below you, and when I came in this morning (Monday), my office was very warm. I set it to "5" when I left on Friday.<BR/><BR/>If you still don't get heat after you're sure that you've got your regulator set correctly, then you might need to get the physical services people into your office. <BR/>The temperature regulators have to be replaced periodically.<BR/><BR/>There's plenty of heat in the building - you just have to know how to get it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3471471289744825428.post-73452243145125635122009-01-26T14:57:00.000-08:002009-01-26T14:57:00.000-08:00As a student who has worked to lower the cost of h...As a student who has worked to lower the cost of higher education in Oregon for several years, I have to agree with you. Although I know that there are pockets of Paul that could be robbed to pay for Peter, within the universities, the ability to do this is a drop in the bucket when compared to the tremendous underfunding that has occurred over the last decade. This year, more than most we are seeing the repercussions of that lack of prioritization for post-secondary education. Community college enrollment is up by percentages in the double digits; public universities are not far from that. There have been more FAFSA applications filed this year in Oregon, than ever before. Basically, just when Oregon's economy and infrastructure need its post-secondary institutions to be the societal engines that they are supposed to be, those same institutions are completely unprepared and not up to the task. This is completely as a result of consistent underfunding and low prioritizing of post-secondary education, not only by the state, but by the citizens of this state. That has GOT to change.Oregonian37https://www.blogger.com/profile/09615745164299272715noreply@blogger.com