At competitive private colleges and universities, admissions directors reserve places in each class for the children of alumni and potential donors; for athletes, many of whom will make less use of their academic opportunities than their classmates do; and simply for those who can pay. And at universities that boast of their commitment to undergraduate teaching, too many professors gabble through PowerPoint slides twice a week and entrust the face-to-face teaching of actual students to underpaid graduate students and Ph.D.s on short-term contracts, who do their best to impart basic skills in writing and quantitative analysis while earning only a few thousand dollars a course.
Our Universities: Why Are They Failing? by Anthony Grafton. This pull quote does not do the article justice. It is damning on all fronts, from the myriad problems to the manner in which they are reported. As an adjunct professor currently on a one year contract, I see several of these problems every day and at the moment the only solution I can provide my students is to give them everything I have. Via iamlittlei.
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