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Originally posted by madmax
I guess that is why there is so many lousy professors. I think most high school teachers are better educators than college professors. Professors are more concerned with research grants or getting some crappy book published. The University of Pennsylvania collects over 600 million a year in tuition. I am pretty sure that money pays for more than just lightbulbs. Most professors are too stupid to figure it out, but without the students and their tuition, the professors wouldn't have jobs.
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Professors do not care if a student understands the material or not at a large university. That is what liberal arts colleges and teaching colleges are for... Better yet, vo-techs are for that purpose...
A newly appointed assistant professor (the title differs for each school) who is on a tenure track (usually 6 years) can only advance if they bring in a certain dollar amount in grants. This grant money is based on what these professors publish. So, if a professor does not get his or her grant, then he or she will be released from the university. That does not look good on a curriculum vitae.
As far as the tuition collected at your university, I can tell you, tuition pays for the worker's comp. that some of the janitorial staff collect... It pays for the huge retirements past living university presidents get and any university trustee or regent... Basically, money is being pocketed bigtime... And forget what the atheletics department does with its funds... You think scholarships...
Okay...
I guarentee you, if you look at your university's fiscal budget, it would make "Worldcom" look like a drop in the DOW...
I am serious!!!
There is heavy mismanagment of money going on at many US higher-education academic institutions--most of them might be premier universities...
Like my university seems to have too many administrative personnel that are doing duplicate jobs...
Efficiency Experts, I say...