Let’s hear your program chair’s best excuse for the classes (or lack of) and or reasoning for coddling a student along.
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The most recent comments from our new Associate Dean of Academic Affairs were as follows:
"We have to give everyone a chance"
So we started seeing second quarter students registered in 200 level classes....Totally un-prepared for the requirements of the curriculum, missing tons of information that once was required to by pre-requisites. Since they don't offer the same or enough 100 level classes to make sure students are successful. why not schedule them in whatever we are running so we can maximize our profits?
Too bad like there isn't.
I wish there was a like button on this for that last post with the Woody Allen quote !
To quote Woody Allen when he was funny, "95% of any job is just showing up."
So it follows that 100 % of the students' loan money goes to a system that doesn't actually educate anyone.
South University at West Palm Beach Fl. has a graduation and retention rate of 8/10% respectively.
More bang for your buck indeed.
"tenured faculty"? at an Art Institute? Please. The full time faculty that have been around for years like the VERY easy paycheck. Low expectations (from admin and students) and decent pay. The Argosy MBA's and PHDs are stuck because they would have a hard time finding a similar job - pay/hours - outside of this system. No one can argue that the Art Institute offers a quality education for the tuition that students pay. Out dated equipment, low standards, poorly qualified instructors - recent grads as adjuncts... horrible that these places are still accepting students.
Tenured faculty I suppose have a lot more to lose. So what is their overall percentage of total faculty and could it be correlated to the abysmal graduation rate this mess has historically perpetrated?
top down "you can come and go as you want"
lack of accountability chain: President, Dean, Program Chairs, Random Adjuncts (former students)
Only the tenured faculty still care and keep students in class for the full time but even their motivation is starting to fizzle out because of how the Dean is a joke
Benjamins, geets scheckels, scratch, dough, greenbacks, moolah, coin of the realm...