Is this real?
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Maybe these āgreatā institutions have just become too revenue focused?
I went to a cheap unrecognizable CC. Dirty little secret is that they work along side of and employ professors from Pitt, CMU, and Penn State to ensure parity and avoid problems with matriculation.
So, a typical class went like this:
Student: I worked really hard on this!
Prof: Iām not changing anything. Get out of my classroom and quit wasting everybodyās time.
Student: Iām going to the deans office!
Prof: Good. Hurry along now. And donāt forget your book. Theyāll still give you half its value at the store. Everybody else, open your books to chapter 9, Rational Functions. Tonight weāre going to find the slope of the asymptoteā¦
Because at $90.00/credit, they actually do care more about their reputation than tuition refunds.
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I was reading about this and one person said young people are more open-minded than older people. Whether or not being open-minded is good or bad, young people have always been more close minded than adults and itās even worse today.
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That about qualifies it. Again, I point to the age of brain maturationā¦
Iād say thatās probably accurate. Iām also not sure that normalizing as in your second example is a bad thingāsome of the idiots arenāt actually idiots theyāre just bad at time management or even unsure of their path. In that sense letting them feel they might have just enough to join the crowd if they work hard isnāt a bad thing. Also, kids who always worked hard to get good grades (as opposed to āgeniusesā) can be completely disheartened in a scenario like your first. These kids by all rights have the ability to become great in their chosen field, but probably need someone willing to teach and mentor rather than ābreakā. For example, my first organic chemistry teacher was so bad I ended the semester with a 52%, but that was a solid B in the class and I was toward the top. Intimidated, I worried constantly about needing to take organic 2, but ended up acing it with a high 90s% due solely to the difference in teacher and style.
Iāve been in classes from both illustrations and I donāt think either should be prevented. As the saying goes, youāre always going to have the 1/3 or the class that just canāt get it. Although I consider the first to be a terrible teacher personallyā¦assuming that it isnāt 1 single test but a semester long pattern. Also many professors are researchers first and teachers a distant second, so they are both ill-equipped and not particularly motivated to do lots of teaching (their appointments are continued by reaching grant and project milestones not by class).
Again though, I personally donāt think administration should have any say in the matter. There are easily many fields that need a more rigorous approach, as long as the professor isnāt āchecked outā.
16, 14,12. Can they really do any worse than the Trump vs Clinton matchup?
2024:
AOC/Bernie ticket vs Skhreli/Stormy Daniels
You kid, but Iād vote for him if heād release the Wu Tang Album
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We just announce unconscious bias workshops at work, YEAH!!!
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I wish you were my professor in grad school, 94 was an A.
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This.
But, it has itās downside too.
I read a professorās open letter to his incoming freshmen at a university and he explained the difference between teachers and professors.
Teachers teach, professors, well, profess. In HS, we get measured on our studentsā performance. In college, his words, they donāt give a shit (paraphrased). You either get it or you get out - they still cash your check.
However, most universities are for profit, and all need to pay the bills. So if you wash out as a freshmen, itās hard to replace you. That means that most universities want you to be there for four years (or more) because new sophomores (or juniors) arenāt a commodity. Thatās why they become selective on admission - can you stick it out for four years.
Community colleges are different - students are a commodity. I live near Nassau CC on Long Island, and they are just servicing the public. Many kids consider it āSuper High Schoolā or āThirteenth Grade,ā but there are quite a few kids admitted to Ivy League schools that choose to defer their enrollment at those schools to spend two years at a lower cost institution.
So, in a woo woo sense, itās all about energy exchange.
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Probably pretty financially viable as well
Pretty good video from fair and balanced Fox News.
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Thatās how they sell it here too, and after hearing from a few professors from Pitt & CMU, they really like the CC students for their work ethic.
Yeah, this is a different class of kid.
Just saying, these kids didnāt have a tutor write the essay for them, donāt get extra time for no reason - they are walking in the front door.
We can all tell whoās mom is writing their essays, and for the most part, this gen is a bunch of cheaters.
But not my kids, lol.
I had a prof who told us he couldnāt finish his own tests in the time allotted. But he curved the class grades.
Had another who graded on a true curve, but made the class very easy so a 95% ended up being a C-.
IME in STEM, pretty much everything was graded on a curve, but only so much as the prof saw fit. They know when a test they made is too hard, or too easy. They know how many A quality, B quality, etc students they have in the class. They arenāt going to pass or give a B to a kid who doesnāt know the material, thatās just setting him up for failure next semester when he has to use that material as base knowledge to apply new concepts. Classes build on each other in STEM.
Properly applied curves are useful tools in a teacher/profs tool chest.
No one got more than a 65% on a signal assignment in my tax I course. It fucking sucked.
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God damn Trump really hates John McCain. I donāt see how people can support Trump I really donāt get it. What a garbage excuse for a human.
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Heās what passes for an alpha male these days.