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stud05
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:20:08 +0000

I am not accusing anyone, babe. I was just summarizing the point of this article here.

http://chronicle.com/cgi2-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i31/31a01001.htm

And the point is (in case you miss it), that large universities (which Columbia is) run like a business with research becoming more important than teaching. The outcome? For that you’ll have to read the article…but here is a little excerpt:

"Mr. Hacker says he has taken several classes where the instructor’s accented English was difficult to comprehend. “There were days when I would go home and have to study the material that they had taught, for the simple reason that I couldn’t understand the things that came out of their mouth,” he says. “It’s one thing to go home and study a concept, another not to understand what the professor was saying.”

Oh, the date of the article is April 2005 (just like the 90s). Peace bro.