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

[Anonymous]

I’m aware that the academic job market is really competitive, and thus people with PhDs from top schools can end up teaching at regional colleges. I imagine that it must be frustrating to teach those students. I looked on the website of a directional university and the faculty have PhDs from Harvard, Yale and other schools that are much, much higher ranked for grad and undergrad than that school.

[Anonymous]

Wow. What a question.

My husband is a professor and taught at a school for a while with a huge portion of his students on Pell Grants. He found it to be incredibly rewarding.

[Anonymous]

This is such an ignorant question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is such an ignorant question

It’s what we’re all thinking.

[Anonymous]

My graduate adviser studied at Princeton and a professor I worked for did graduate studies at UChicago. I went to grad school in a place that most people on DCUM would laugh at. The professors who went to those prestigious schools spent time with me, advised me on my career and life, and occasionally we went out for beers and pizza. If they had some amount of disdain for me because I was attending a bottom tier school, it certainly wasn’t obvious over the handful of years I spent with them.

[Anonymous]

OP - you are horribly ignorant. I wonder what your professors thought about you.

[Anonymous]

David Foster Wallace preferred teaching at Illinois State University to Pomona, where he went after being offered an endowed faculty Chair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - you are horribly ignorant. I wonder what your professors thought about you.

Settle down.

[Anonymous]

Math is hard, isn't it, OP?

The professors from top colleges can't ALL teach at top colleges. There are way too many of them.

So they go elsewhere, and honestly, if they can get tenure and make a decent living, they're happy.

Tenure is very difficult to get. You've heard of adjunct faculty with PhDs who don't even get paid and need side jobs to make ends meet?

[Anonymous]

What's a "directional university"?

Also, no. My friends who are professors are frustrated by ignorant students who don't try hard and administrators who impose pointless requirements to justify their existence, but you both of those anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's a "directional university"?

Also, no. My friends who are professors are frustrated by ignorant students who don't try hard and administrators who impose pointless requirements to justify their existence, but you both of those anywhere.

you *find* both of those anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's a "directional university"?

Also, no. My friends who are professors are frustrated by ignorant students who don't try hard and administrators who impose pointless requirements to justify their existence, but you both of those anywhere.

East Carolina University, Central Michigan University etc

[Anonymous]

All the professors I know complain about their students whether they teach at elite universities or open admission colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such an ignorant question

It’s what we’re all thinking.

Nope. Not thinking that. At all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such an ignorant question

It’s what we’re all thinking.

No. It is not.

Many of us really don't see ourselves and our children as the chosen ones. Separated by some chasm from the unwashed masses.

There are brilliant students in all colleges. Many wind up where they did because of the family they were born into, not because they are innately defective or inferior.

I pray that your children do not have your attitude about other people in our world.