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[quote=Anonymous]These are three different questions that don't necessarily have causal relationships.

-acceptance rates are a function of competition between students - if more students apply to more schools, there will be fewer accepted to each, this doesn't reflect anything about quality of instruction.

-it is much, much harder to get a tenure track job as a professor because so many have been replaced with adjuncts and there are so many more PhD graduates. Your kid's younger professors probably have publication records at 10 years in the field that rival those of their retiring colleagues with 40 years. So by that measure, professors are "better."

-at highly ranked schools, professors aren't hired for teaching record or ability, they're hired for research, so we still can't make assumptions about quality of instruction. The competition for jobs is more likely to result in selection for teaching ability at lower ranked schools, believe it or not.

-a lot of bigger schools have invested in "teaching and learning centers," dedicated instructional staff to help professors, etc, that they wouldn't have had decades ago. Could this improve quality of teaching? Maybe, but probably not uniformly
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