> These things aren't the fault of students, professors or any one group, it's just how the complex system that is college education in the US has evolved. You

> These things aren't the fault of students, professors or any one group, it's just how the complex system that is college education in the US has evolved. You say that, but in the rest of your entire post, you're putting the blame squarely on the professors. I was a professor, and I put a crazy amount of time and effort into my students. Copious office hours, refining and reworking every single class I taught every time I taught it, rewriting every test and assignment, doing extracurricular homework reviews and test prep, etc, etc. All this to say, I was very interested in being a good teacher, and this > The professors who are actually interested in being good teachers don't seem to have a problem with under-performing students (or at least you never hear them complaining). is bullshit. It's not that it's wrong. It's disingenuous. The under-performing students are not the issue. They've never been the issue. Even students admitted based on academic merit have weaknesses and struggle in certain areas. That's part of being human. Good students, regardless of performance, will work to overcome these weaknesses and deserve attention and work on the part of the professor in return. The problem is the non-performing students. The ones who tell you that their daddy paid good money for them to pass your class, and they've never once turned in a homework assignment or passed a quiz. Those students leach time and effort and attention that rightfully belongs to the under-performing students. Those students will offer you money and sex before they do a lick of work, and I have been offered both, multiple times. They do not belong in universities. From the article: > Exhibit A from the recent admissions corruption scandal is “social media celebrity” Olivia Jade Gianulli, whose parents bought her a place at the University of Southern California, and who announced last August to her huge YouTube following that “I don’t know how much of school I’m going to attend. But I do want the experience of, like, game days, partying … I don’t really care about school.” I think you have greatly misunderstood the problem and fail to grasp the realities of the situation. Yes, there exist professors that don't give a crap about teaching, but your post is a slap in the face to those of us who care deeply and spend (or used to spend) 60 - 80 hours a week doing it.