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Wouldn't increasing the success rate by 30-60% pay for itself? If that much of the class fails out after the first course, that's tuition lost for the remainde
by Zikes 15y ago
Wouldn't increasing the success rate by 30-60% pay for itself? If that much of the class fails out after the first course, that's tuition lost for the remainder of the courses, is it not?
- allenp 15y agoPossibly, but only if the subsequent classes do not also have the increased staffing costs. I guess my point is that just because this group learns how to assign variables doesn't mean they'll be able to program recursively, understand how a compiler works, or be able to debug the stack and they will need just as much help in those classes as they did at the onset.
- Symmetry 15y agoNot really. STEM professors generally get most of their money through grants, so they don't really care about the tuition that students bring in. Plus, teaching uses up resources (both professor time and grad students) that could be used on research that could bring in more grants. But the students who flunk out of CS or other STEM fields usually don't go away, they end up in the humanities instead. There, professors aren't getting a lot of money based on their research, and they usually have a surplus of grad students that they need to put to use somehow. And the college gets the same tuition either way.