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To: Slings and Arrows
This will affect the level of instruction, since professors have to design their courses around their students.

Only for the general classes, which the idiots take as an extension of high school. My husband has suffered through them after getting out of the Air Force, and is now getting into the core classes for his business major. Once you qualify to get into a respectable major, there's a different type of student. Kelley school of business is one of the top ranked in the nation.

But yeah, I went with my husband to a few of his undergrad classes here, and the typical student in the general courses at IUPUI belongs at a community college. Or beauty college. The classes are nothing like what I received at a well-respected public CA university.

91 posted on 11/11/2006 12:56:42 PM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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To: ReagansShinyHair
Only for the general classes, which the idiots take as an extension of high school. ... Once you qualify to get into a respectable major, there's a different type of student.

With respect, this is not the case. I teach Computer Science at a public university; if I tried to teach, say, algorithmic analysis the way it was taught to me I'd have a 95% failure rate. (The remaining 5% being world-class students who could hold their own at any school.) This is in part due to the fact that administration wants graduates to increase their statistics (and tuition coffers; drop-outs don't pay tuition) and exert pressure accordingly, but also because overwhelmingly, the kind of student who can succeed at MIT or CMU goes to MIT or CMU, not Nowhere State U. As a department chair told me, you have to teach the students you've got, not the students you want.

92 posted on 11/11/2006 1:20:09 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (Natalie Maines fears me...)
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