Accreditation in the face of education is an issue / situation that today continues to germinate in our country. Our future posterity is based solely on the whims and needs of American business, at least it seems so.
Let’s take a look at the demise of our educational system as judged by various Philadelphia college professors, shall we?
There is much hope. “Something is going to change,” says Randy LoBasso of teacher Debra Leigh Scott. “We have reached a tipping point, we have lost consciousness!” She says that the ability to transmit knowledge is a very big thing to lose. No one seems to be able to understand the importance of what it means to lose the ability to correctly transmit knowledge to another, especially to a younger person, to students in particular. Is there a winner? Is there someone, something, some entity that will benefit from the death of education?
The American Association of College Professors, in a report, found that between 1975 and 2003, the number of permanent positions in higher education dropped from 56.8% to 35.1%, according to LoBasso. About a million teachers nationwide have the skills to teach up to eleven classes per college semester at any number of schools. The (aforementioned) number of classes can seem like a huge workload: with the three thousand dollar paycheck per class, could any teacher make ends meet? The decline of full-time professorships, since the 1970s, has slapped many teachers with a reality check.
The report goes on to note the realization of students who have to resort to exchanges of e-mails between the teacher and the student. “Students have little or no personal access to faculty beyond the classroom,” says the interviewed professor. Scott says, “The student who learns under the tutelage of an overloaded teacher may be in a worse situation: being tutored by dedicated but degraded teachers who have no offices, who are hired semester by semester by today’s colleges and universities by wages lower than employee paychecks. ” from K-Mart or McDonald’s. “
Professor Scott shares those sentiments based on the current report and the experience of a blog that chronicled someone else’s work at various universities in the greater Philadelphia area. “We are all being screwed by corporate universities, where the needs of students and the value of professors are downplayed by the pursuit of profit, a profit that benefits neither.
The death of “student-teacher-administration relations at the American University” (that is, “planned disenfranchisement; interdepartmental communication conspiracy: failure or a simple mistake?” Says Scott, August 18, 2007 , relies on casual workers and outsourcing, much like an American corporation. The professor and an associate said they have found evidence of corporations moving in and taking over what is taught in college and university classrooms. Lots of cuts Drastic and deep-seated grants and state education budgets have forced universities to rely increasingly on corporate donations; they come with quotas … with conditions. Holders of corporate chains want research subjects for pharmaceutical companies, doing large donations that are tax deductible. They then guide graduate students in conducting research ones at the behest of said corporations. Students inadvertently turn into underpaid or unpaid labor on behalf of big drug companies.
After graduating and owning hundreds of thousands of dollars (and according to the Financial Aid Organization’s student loan debt clock, about $ 88.2 billion is owed) they become scared robots, slaves, obedient workers who just they can find work in the same corporations that have funded the labs, buildings, and scholarships of the schools they attend.
The circumstances of this culture created in which “cheating and laziness” of both students and teachers, have become the norm in recent years. It is also perpetuated by the outsourcing climate and its reliance on colleges and universities that make the financial and hiring decisions. Today, online businesses that base their existence and continuity on writing student papers have become extremely industrialized players. These companies generate hundreds of thousands of dollars by cheating: they create so-called original essays based on specific instructions provided by the writing of other cheating students. One pseudonymous author stated in an ‘Inside Higher Education’ article: “You’d be surprised by the incompetence of student writing. I’ve seen the word ‘desperate’ misspelled in every way you can imagine, and these students … they could not”. Don’t write a compelling shopping list, yet you are in grad school. “
Fuck … and you thought he was bad at the high school level, huh?
In another interview that was conducted, a faculty member of a university in Cleveland commented: “I have to believe that the university system can be saved. I have children and I am not going to sit idly by and watch their educational future disappear.” In other words, the dead raising the dead.
Experience gets you nowhere these days. Over the past twenty years, another college professor says that while working as a part-time English teacher at several Philadelphia-area universities, she found time to publish a book and provide editing, writing, and corporate consulting services to business clients. He has even written plays, which were eventually produced. Although, when the market crashed in 2008, his resume was not enough. He lost his luxurious suburban home and had to move into an apartment with strangers. He found an apartment listing site on the internet. “I was like a lot of people, he says, you think you’re going to find a full-time position, you really think it’s going to happen, then you realize it’s not going to happen … it’s a horrible day.”
Years ago, while reflecting on this writing, as a struggling student at CCP, I had the opportunity to come across one of those part-time workers who was assigned to teach English 101. I knew that as an overworked person, this teacher was stressed. . The teacher even announced to the class that she had several run-ins with Color students. She went on to say that the aforementioned group had threatened her. This particular teacher also demonstrated that she was confrontational, biased, and disillusioned based on her experiences with ethnic groups. This woman actually accused me of plagiarism … a work I submitted for a writing assignment. Now, how do you plagiarize yourself? I submitted an English essay from a previous class, in which I received an ‘A’. I wrote the article for an assignment from another class at school: a business class. The document was based on an experience found during my tenure in the transportation industry. It was a good rehearsal, I must admit. Needless to say, I failed their English 101 course. I suffered the first, only, and last ‘F’ in a series of A’s throughout my college career … because of racism! The complaints were, of course, filed to no avail.
Composing in English was always a strong point for me in school, from elementary to high school. In my opinion, we must go back to the basics of education at all levels, starting with kindergarten, or we will face an endless trend towards the educational graveyard and come last when compared to the educational world at large. .
Until next time…
