This is just ... the way it is.
Surely you can do better than that.
That's NOT the way it SHOULD be. Students deserve excellent teaching. They deserve teaching that deserves respect.
Basically, some professors have managed to carve out very comfortable positions for themselves where they do essentially whatever they want to do and get paid quite handsomely, by most standards, for it, and the people who pay the bills for it be damned.
You shouldn't, IMO, be just saying that's the way it is. You should be, again IMO, railing against the way the system was developed and demanding that academia return to what it should be.
Which is why I went to a college where teaching was the goal, purpose, and focus of the faculty, and research and publication were tolerated, but only if they didn't interfere with the teaching function.
That, IMO, is the way it should be. |
