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State, university should focus on education
Resources should be focused on keeping our best professors
Royal Purple Staff
Issue date: 5/14/08 Section: Opinion
With rising tuition and waning state aid, UW-Whitewater needs to focus more on what is at the core of a university-its instructors. New buildings and sophisticated technology may look good on its face, but without the best people behind it, it's all for naught.
Roughly $20 million was spent on renovating the university center in order to attract new students and provide a more modern environment. However, the student that chose to attend UW-Whitewater based on this may realize that by the time he or she is ready to take upper-level classes, the professor who instructed them has left, forcing a change in curriculum.
The university trumpets a modern, technological environment, but when graduates working in their field are recommending universities to students who are shopping around after high school, they may be suggest steering clear of UW-Whitewater; after all, they couldn't even hold onto that beloved professor.
The consistency and real improvement any organization seeks can be lost when deciding how money is best spent, and administration should shift its focus back to maintaining an effective and long-lasting faculty.
Roughly $20 million was spent on renovating the university center in order to attract new students and provide a more modern environment. However, the student that chose to attend UW-Whitewater based on this may realize that by the time he or she is ready to take upper-level classes, the professor who instructed them has left, forcing a change in curriculum.
The university trumpets a modern, technological environment, but when graduates working in their field are recommending universities to students who are shopping around after high school, they may be suggest steering clear of UW-Whitewater; after all, they couldn't even hold onto that beloved professor.
The consistency and real improvement any organization seeks can be lost when deciding how money is best spent, and administration should shift its focus back to maintaining an effective and long-lasting faculty.
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Howard Ross
posted 5/14/08 @ 6:57 AM CST
My colleagues are right, but the issue is more complex. Many faculty members leave because of the heavy teaching loads at Whitewater and other second tier institutions. (Continued…)
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