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E.Central MN | The University I attended became so driven by money that the compensation for their professors depended upon how many positive peer reviewed articles they got printed in the leading journals/speaking engagements they garnered, how many grants from businesses/govt they could bring to the university and by how many patents to rake in funds for the university that they could generate. I don't think I ever heard the administration talk about the value of a good teacher to scores of students...They kept mentioning the good old days when the university had winning sports teams and how that impacted their endowment fund. (The administration was really jealous of Ohio St and Harvard's endowment funds) I'm sure they felt hampered by being a "Land Grant" university. One Chancellor wanted to eliminate all the undergraduate programs so it could spend more money on graduate programs that got the most publicity. The Regents received so much flak that they told him he couldn't do that. I always thought if they felt that strongly then they should have quit the university and applied for a job at Harvard, etc. Unfortunately in today's society, "Science" and "Fiduciary Responsibility" have become twisted to fit whatever definition greedy people want them to mean. | |
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Please believe in science.
