@Eddie: professors in many SDA institutions–including PUC–are paid less, even …

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@Eddie:

professors in many SDA institutions–including PUC–are paid less, even as much as 25% less, than primary and secondary school teachers in SDA schools on the same campus. How fair is that? How can we expect our children to obtain a quality SDA education when we fail to adequately support SDA educators who have sacrificed years of their lives to educate our children?

I completely agree with this statement. You only get what you pay for. If the Church is really interested in higher education and promoting its own goals and ideals effectively through its own schools, it is going to have to find a way to compensate “effective” professors much better than it currently is.

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com

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