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The modern Ivy League campus is a popularity contest amongst professors. Universities are filled with a growing cadre of administrators, and the administrators
by JPKab 4y ago
The modern Ivy League campus is a popularity contest amongst professors. Universities are filled with a growing cadre of administrators, and the administrators focus on appeasing student complaints, always taking the side of students against faculty.
Professors are afraid of upsetting students, or being called bigots if a person in some protected identity group gets a bad grade and complains about bias. This is an inevitable consequence of campus culture having a strong belief in guilt-by-accusation.
- ouid 4y agoThis is absolutely not why. There is no incentive for universities to tell employers what they think of the students attending them, and the intercollegiate talent transfer is 99% recommendations and research experience. Students don't want it, professors don't care, and the general public doesn't pay them to. Universities make their money from students and research, not from employers hoping for them to report statistics on the people attending. It is only their accreditation process which cares, and it doesn't care very much. I think you just want your story to be true, honestly.
- canaus 4y agoSomeone, somewhere, just called out bingo. Do you have any data to back up the various claims in this comment? A misstep -- amongst many in this comment -- is that you're implying that 82% of the graduating class is of a protected identity group. Is that true?
- JPKab 4y ago82%? Of course not. GPA inflation isn't caused by helping the students who don't need it. It's about coddling those who can't get good grades without help.
- universityguys 4y agoThis is the argument Professor Mansfield at Harvard uses (the bigot part). Inspiration from him or just coincidence?