along with the suggestions. (Though I had to read through your post several times to parse out what you were saying. Your prose is thick and chewy, my friend.)

However, I don't feel that there would be sufficient long-term payback in the strategy you suggest. It's a for-profit school, therefore short-term thinking and the bottom line are the primary decision generators.

As I mentioned earlier, I don't plan on staying there too much longer. While I'm here, I feel that the best use of my time and energy would be to continue improving my classes, do the best I can for my students and try to set as best an example as I can.

They know that I'm one of the best instructors they've got (we get evaluated by our students every term and my numbers are consistently high). When something interferes with my teaching, they find out from me right away.

Threats and ultimatums aren't my style. If I'm going to do something, I just do it.

Before I took this job, I was a senior consultant with a Big Five firm that wouldn't even talk to you if your sales revenue was less than x million/year. I left that job because I had certain disagreements with the ethics of my employers. I took a very large pay cut to become a teacher, but I sleep better at night now.

They can't motivate me with money or threats. What motivates me are things over which they have no control.