How do professors who went to top schools feel about teaching students at bottom tier colleges?

[Anonymous]

My DC is in a PhD program and wants to be a Professor. Frankly, they would be happy to get tenure track position anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in grad school at a public Ivy, there was a professor who had gotten his degrees and a tenure-track position at an Ivy Ivy. He didn't get tenure there, though, hence the move.

Decades after he moved, he could not stop talking about how great things were at the Ivy. And while I am sure there were advantages to life at a private university, he was at an institution known for the quality of the department where he was teaching -- and talking endlessly about how very great the Ivy and its students were.

Some people are just ingrates.

There are assholes everywhere who think they are too good for this world. But most professors are delighted to have students who are engaged and interested, whether those students are geniuses or are struggling.

[Anonymous]

I had a friend in a PhD program at an Ivy who was told by a professor " we don't produce PhDs good enough to teach here"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to CUNY. Had experiences with bad professors, and good ones, but that I suspect, is because as with everything else in life, there are people who are good at their job, and not so. Never ever saw anything akin to condescension.

Because I have no clue what anyone's educational background was, I went and looked up a couple that are still teaching. One went to Princeton for undergrad, Columbia for Masters and Ph.D. The other went to Cornell for undergrad, and Yale for Ph.D. Brilliant people, and lord knows we caught plenty of flack from them, but it wasn't because they thought we were beneath them.

CUNY is absolutely a school where some professors are there because they WANT to teach CUNY students, not Princeton students. Maybe more than most similar schools.

[Anonymous]

I wanted to teach students like myself, a hard working LMC student.

I find that the students at middling colleges are the worst: their parents usually are full pay, the students do as little work as possible, and the parents complain.

Students at the lowest level usually work the hardest.

[Anonymous]

Professors work where they get most money and they send their kids where they can get admitted/get cost of attendance subsidized. They aren’t rich enough to pick job or kids college they want not poor enough to get aid at every college.

[Anonymous]

Wife of a professor at a decent but not top SLAC, he's Princeton/Harvard educated. He loves his students, his research, and basically everything about his job except the committees.