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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It absolutely depends on the the type of school- if it is one that values teaching, then, yeah, a prof is preferable.  The worst classes I ever had were taught by high-flying research faculty who just didn't care about teaching and weren't incentivized to do so.

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+1 - either there's a commitment to quality instruction, or there's a 'sink or swim' attitude towards students, and who's doing the teaching doesn't really matter. I think it probably varies a lot by department - I was a double major in one STEM and one non-STEM area, and in the STEM department, there was only one faculty member in a full-time instructional role. She taught the intro/intermediate courses and labs, and was let go a few years after I graduated. Everything else was taught by disinterested research-oriented faculty, or graduate assistants (most of whom spoke limited English and were heavily assisted by undergraduate teaching assistants, of which I was one as a junior & senior). In the humanities department, all the lecture classes and seminars were taught by professors, and probably half of them led their own discussion sections, too - the culture was much more oriented towards student engagement and growth.[/quote]

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