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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We met with a family member who is a professor at a university (~T100 range) over the Thanksgiving break. We also got to meet with a few other professors who were friends of the family member.

We are quite shocked by what we heard about some of the changes taking place over the last couple of years. This is especially evident in specific majors and the combination of AI use by students, administrative overhead on professors, composition of student body and recent cuts have dramatically impacted these majors. It is just such a sad situation. Professors who were totally checked out - [b]some schedule classes on two back to back days so they are pretty free 5 days a week[/b], giving up on tests, [b]professors project questions on a screen and students select answers on their phones[/b], etc. [b]What got us even more concerned is that the professors were positive that a significant portion of these students in these majors would not be employed[/b] and they seem powerless to help. They have already given up.

We dropped several schools from consideration based on the data we were able to gather. This is not across the board, many of these schools have majors where this is not an issue.

Do your due diligence.[/quote]

Lol. This isn't "checked out," lol, this is just academia. Do you know what a professor is? Their primary job isn't the teaching of your kids -- it's scholarship. They aren't "pretty much free," they are conducting research and publishing.

And projecting questions on a screen and having students use their phones to answer it as a poll allows everyone to answer, not just one person. It's called using tech for engagement, and it actually takes more prep than just wandering into the room and expounding and asking the occasional question of the room.

Whether or not students will end up "employed" is a whole other matter, but my short answer (which is, admittedly, quite arguable) is that college isn't, or at least shouldn't be, trade school. [/quote]

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