Fair, remember me not to employ fresh graduates from such universities.
Studying should definitely not be a struggle, but it should important to also know how to achieve good results. If you achieve good results regardless of what you do, then you’ll likely tend to get lazy.
I didn’t study so many years ago, but remember my professors clearly saying that the highest vote was reserved for excellence and not just knowing the subject.
It would be quite common that out of 100 students none got the highest vote, nobody complained.
I didn’t study so many years ago, but remember my professors clearly saying that the highest vote was reserved for excellence and not just knowing the subject.
I only had one such professor at my university, and he was widely feared and disliked by the students for it. He tended to be especially dreaded by the high-GPA types who were accustomed to getting at or near 4.0 GPA just for adequacy and feared that his class alone would be enough to crack their perfect record.
(Ended up having to take no less than four classes from him. But, by the time I was partway through the 2nd class, I’d pretty much figured out what he meant by ‘excellence’ – it’s of course different for every teacher – and I was still able to get excellent grades in those classes. In fact, by the last class I had with him, I was able to slack off and bullshit my way through insufficiently researched papers and still get a good grade in his class … which is a bit ironic, given his reputation as a hard-ass and a stickler for details. But by that point, I’d figured out what details he was looking for and, more importantly, what he wasn’t looking for. However, on the whole, I do think I learned some valuable things in his class, even if much of that was just ‘how to speak academic’.)
Fair, remember me not to employ fresh graduates from such universities.
Boomer coded. This is almost every university, and the few who don’t have to send letters explaining why the letters actually mean. Might as well say I’m not gonna hire anyone because “nO ONE wANtS TO WorK AnYmoRe” Nonsense.
I read this book called tenure hacks:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24945544
It’s a good one, useful advice for junior faculty. Makes a compelling argument, similar to the article, that the requirement of good and improving student evaluations for promotion (that is, survival) means that the professor needs to give high grades- students won’t give a good evaluation if they are graded by a hardass.
Specifically, he recommends giving As at the end of the course when evaluations are due, and have any more stict assessments (if necessary) in writing, in the midterms.
It’s backwards that no life outcome of the students is a performance metric of the teacher, except the evaluation that the student submits after they receive their grade.
Kinda backwards in graduate school. Research universities often treat the students as cheap labor and don’t weigh their outcomes for tenure decisions. I think there should a be a five year after graduation delay where graduate mentors are evaluated in hindsight after the mentee can see if it was just hard or if someone was a jerk. It does inherently add an aspect of employment to the evaluation, but if the university agrees that’s more their responsibility (UrgentlyFiring) and actually invests in placement systems I think it’d work well.
