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[quote=Anonymous]I am a tenure professor at a research university, and I will strongly encourage my children to go to a SLAC for undergraduate. I have stated in other threads that 90% of my salary ($100K, btw) is based on research and publishing, not on teaching.

Students (and, sigh, their parents) who think that they should know exactly what is on an exam are being unrealistic. Class meets for 3 hours/week. An exam will cover that material plus the additional 10 hours of reading that they are supposed to do outside of class. Also, I would say that a good quarter of my students don't show up regularly to class, so their complaints about their poor grades on the exams fall on my deaf ears.

As for the costs--blame the huge rise in upper-level administrators. Have you seen the salaries of university presidents, provosts, and deans? Also, parents are demanding a lot of student services. The percentage of students requiring accommodations has tripled since I've started teaching. [/quote]

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