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redstatebluegirl

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8. All I can say is AMEN!

Fri Apr 15, 2016, 06:25 PM

Apr 2016

And that is not like me at all. I spent 15 years in Student Services, when I left I had over 700 kids I was personally responsible for. It grew every single year. I hear they are up to 1500 now.

My husband is doing bio medical research, but it isn't "sexy" enough for the current crop of program officers. If it isn't cancer, ebola, heart disease or dementia they really could care less.

It is sad that smart people are being demonized, it used to be great to be a professor and looked up to. Now these kids and the administration and parents look down their noses at faculty.

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Question for those of you who currently teach at the University level. [View all] redstatebluegirl Apr 2016 OP

I don't teach at a college, but I agree with your frustration 100% LisaM Apr 2016 #1

I want him to, but it is getting hard to stick it out. redstatebluegirl Apr 2016 #5

"Researchers ... are treated like kings" ... where, pray tell, is this Utopia ? eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 #6

That doesn't go with what we have seen at our institution. redstatebluegirl Apr 2016 #9

I have advised my daughter not to go into academia Blue Meany Apr 2016 #2

Everything and anything... DeGreg Apr 2016 #3

Got out of college teaching 40 yrs ago.... Eleanors38 Apr 2016 #4

Thoughts from a recent retiree from higher education ladym55 Apr 2016 #7

All I can say is AMEN! redstatebluegirl Apr 2016 #8