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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where universities have lost the pot is that they don’t teach. They have these super ego inflated professors who care more about research and their classes are afterthought..[/quote]

The research function (research and training grad students via what is effectively an apprenticeship) and the undergraduate education function are mostly separate functions which is one of the reasons that all of the funding cuts were just stupid. [b]Destroy our research machine fighting about something that the researchers have no real interest in. The grad programs would cut the undergrad programs free in a heartbeat if they could, they just aren't relevant to their work.[/b]

This is why top SLACs are the single best place for undergraduate education in traditional subjects outside of engineering and CS.[/quote]

And yet it seems to be working.
Punishing the graduate programs seems to be making the undergrad admissions offices aware that discrimination has consequences.[/quote]

The consequences are that research dollars are now politicized and if you have the right politics you can get some.  Who cares if you figure out a treatment for breast cancer that is not of any importance.[/quote]

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