Is this an unreasonable professor

dietz199
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:16:13 +0000

…elite research universities, at least, do NOT exist for the benefit of students. They are effectively a hybrid of faculty collectives and self-sustaining real estate businesses. Undergraduate students are customers, and get catered to somewhat, but the primary goal of the institution is to support and to amuse the faculty.



This is an excellent point to ponder. Who DO these organizations really serve. I would add that they also serve a category of legacy families and those who can buy their way in. This in turn serves the faculty as you mentioned above. Throw in a good smattering of ‘politically correct’ URM’'s for PR and it becomes a rather closed and self sustaining machine.

There is probably enough material here for a new thread ‘:)’