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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a professor too. You are somewhat accurate in what you describe but so much of that is irrelevant or without context. Scheduling classes two days per week? You realize teaching is contractually about 40-50% of the job, right? When are they supposed to do their other work? Answering questions on a phone? That's Kahoot. It's fun and not bad at all. AI, budget cuts, that's across the board. Unavoidable.

Chill. [/quote]
+1. I'm a professor, too, and I agree with this PP.
When I talk with friends and family who have children applying to colleges, where I find my value is in informing the parents that [b]1) faculty at research universities are not incentivized to teach undergraduates, but rather to publish research. Good teaching at these well-known schools is by accident, not by design; 2) SLACs are where you will find faculty incentivized for strong undergraduate teaching[/b]; 3) do not allow your impression of your individual tour guide to color the entire college. I have observed so many college tours in my 20+ years of college teaching, and tour guides leave strong impressions, good and bad, when they should not. Make sure your kid understands this. [/quote]

Please just stop pushing this tired narrative.  I highly doubt you're a professor, for starters.  Secondly, the bolded is just a sweeping generalization that has had no bearing in my own kids' reality at large research universities.  The quality of their undergraduate teaching has been astounding - not to mention the breadth of opportunities available to them.
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