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curious butterfly's avatar

At my university, the professors didn't give much thought to teaching the courses in sequence in my major. For example, if they had a restricted budget and could only offer 6 classes, they'd replace the undergrad version of a required course with a grad level version. It might be okay if it were cultural anthropology or sociology or history, but not chemistry or math! Students would enroll in the grad courses and fail them and have to wait 2-3 years for that course to come around again to retake it before they could graduate, or accept an F on their transcript and take something else. I talked to many students who fell in that trap. Those professors' only concern was their research. They didn't consider how their choices affected graduation rates. They should've just cancelled the entire program until they had proper funds to provide what was needed, in my opinion.

Another time we went to a study session to get graded homework back that we needed to study for the test, only to find it still wasn't ready yet. The professor and dept chair said "oh you can all just come Friday and get it" and this girl went bananas who lived 2 hours away and worked multiple jobs to pay her tuition, who couldn't come back after we already made a special trip on a non-class day for our graded assignments. Total disconnection from reality and the students and their concerns. I heard things got better after I graduated. I hope that's true.

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Libor Soural's avatar

Well, all they are up to is get their paycheck and pay their mounted up BS bills! Their only plan is to get them down, their own piles of shit as they don't know what to do with themselves, scholars, I think.

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jacob silverman's avatar

Thats all?

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