<p>Note that the issues in this 1975 !!! article are still unchanged.</p>
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<p>Poll Indicates Dissatisfaction With Student-Faculty Contact</p>
<p>Published On Thursday, May 01, 1975 12:00 AM
By JUDITH KOGAN</p>
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<p>Results of a survey conducted last month by Educational Resources Group (ERG) show that a significant number of undergraduates are dissatisfied with the relations they have with members of the Faculty.</p>
<p>Over 50 per cent of the seniors responding to the poll said they felt they cannot ask more than one professor for a recommendation to graduate school and 64 per cent of the seniors said they are dissatisfied with the amount of contact they have had with professors.</p>
<p>The survey also found that 74 per cent of the freshmen, sophomores, and juniors polled were dissatisfied with the amount of contact they had with Faculty members.</p>
<p>Approximately 2000 students returned the questionnaires on faculty-student relations, which ERG–a student group–solicited in dining halls last month.</p>
<p>Michael A. Kahn '78, chairman of ERG, said yesterday the large sample size indicates that the statistics are highly reliable.</p>
<p>Economics Low</p>
<p>Economics concentrators, according to the poll, have far less contact with professors than students in any other department.</p>
<p>Thirty per cent of those sampled said they have been rebuffed when seeking contact from professors, while 21 per cent of the students in other departments said they have the same response.</p>
<p>Haha it’s funny in a way</p>
<p>Kind of hard to feel bad for Harvard students…</p>
<p>The moment you go to a RESEARCH oriented university, most of the big name faculty members are most often out of reach.</p>
<p>You get lectured in a hall with hundreds of students ( and if you search the recent threads here you’ll see a biology class in Harvard taught by a professor in Sanders Hall, with many students, making the lecture impersonal ).</p>
<p>See here :
[The</a> Harvard Crimson :: News :: Students Defect from Sciences](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521740]The”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=521740)</p>
<p>I think Harvard is trying to solve this problem, but they are not the only college having this problem.</p>
<p>I know of several students who quit their science courses at Stony Brook University for instance because their professors don’t even teach anymore ( mostly TA’s ).</p>
<p>Another problem you’ll find is universities hiring very smart Ph.D’s from overseas with poor English language communication skills.</p>
<p>At the Unviersity of Colorado- Boulder, one student had a TA for Calculus who was fresh off the plane from Romania. Here’s how he described his language skills: “French, Yes, Russian, Yes, English, little.” Since he was a dumb Freshman, he didn’t know he could or should protest.</p>
<p>Later that semester, still with a sketchy understanding of Calculus, he dropped the Comp Sci degree for Classics.</p>
<p>The Romanian was an older fellow with a doctorate. My suspicion is that he was a great mathematician the university was eager to acquire, but they could only make him teach in an auxiliary level because of his poor English. So they dumped him on Freshmen who wouldn’t protest.</p>