Hartwick College - Thoughts anyone?

lostaccount
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 03:00:30 +0000

Free time for tenured faculty? Not that i’ve seen. And certainly not in STEM, where it is critical to get external funding to keep labs going and where graduate training is the priority by a long shot. Maybe professors in areas like ancient French literature have time because they don’t have to stay current in anything, and grants are unlikely and there are no labs and probably few if any graduate students. But among those studying in STEM areas relevant to this century, time does not tend to loosen up. I’ve never seen a senior faculty member in STEM become more accessible to college students at large public universities. In fact it is the opposite. And sometimes if for no other reason than perceived self importance and disinterest in college students. This last part is likely to be far less common in private universities tho.