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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (27983)2/5/2004 4:19:06 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) of 793954
 
A partial answer to this is the College Internet Boards that have sprung up where a student can check Prof's out.

Yes, and we know how much the profs like that. :)

I don't think limiting the number of humanities departments would do the trick. You'd just get more "undeclareds". I think the problem really starts in middle and high school, where science is boring as hell and you lose a lot of bright kids. And the high schools don't do a good job of teaching kids about careers, so they have an unreasonable expectation, if they have any expectations at all, of what is out there and what you can do with a degree.

I think having so many more kids going to college has its downside as well. The ones that aren't cut out or don't really want to be there will drift into the "easy" courses. You have department enrollment inflation. The departments that get the enrollments, ie the tuition revenues, get the goods.

Derek
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