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Confessions of a College Professor
Personal blog · professorconfess.blogspot.comculturecareer
Confessions of a College Professor is a personal blog at professorconfess.blogspot.com about culture and career. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog, written by a college professor under the name Professor Doom, for posts on faculty pay, university administration and remedial college teaching.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Rants and raves about the mess of higher education in the United States.
What Hacker News says?
There's an old blog that addresses this topic: https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/ It correlates student loans with the destruction of academic integrity. The idea is school administrators want to capture as many student loan dollars as possible, and that means maximizing the number of enrolled students. To that end, complexity, rigor and difficulty are all reduced as much as possible. Students are prevented from…
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on “Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]”Submitted All the remedial classes in one place as a story · 116 points
HN discussion> There are all sort of perverse incentives built in to erode educational benefits, hand hold students, make university 'fun' This blog may be relevant: https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/
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on “Universities forced to face addiction to foreign students’ money”> It became very financially oriented. > The number of students kept rising, norms kept dropping All due to the student loans scam. https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-first-myth... https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-second-myt... https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/03/myth-3-college... https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-last-myth....
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on “Universities should be more than toll gates”This reminds me of Professor Doom's rantings like this one "Illinois University: Cut Faculty Pay To Zero" http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2018/05/illinois-univer...
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on “The Diversity Staff at the University of Michigan Is Nearly 100 People”Faculty were complaining about this eleven years ago: https://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2013/06/all-remedial-c... > There’s a huge issue of integrity in the pre-sub-remedial course. If you’re teaching 3rd grade material to an adult, you consider that adult to have the cognitive skills of an 8 year old at best. There’s nothing wrong with trying to improve education and learning, but at some point, someone should…
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on “Congress Should Make Universities Pay for Handing Out Useless Degrees”
