California Democrat compares President Obama to college professors. Interesting.
I'm sure we can come off as overbearing and self-sure at times, but that's what they pay us for. After all, we're experts. We may be an expert in the most obscure piece of Medieval literature ever found (the pope's laundry list, for example), but by God we're an expert in something.
After all, if we aren't experts, then we can't certify that you learnt something while you were at the Kollege of Knowledge. That's our job, you know.
As for "NEVER TALK TO REAL PEOPLE" as a policy, I'm sure we've all seen how that phenomenon works in real life. During the Bush administration they were criticized for having a "bunker" mentality - I wonder if this is similar.
I know in higher ed it's very common for administrators to forget what it's like to teach classes; they sometimes forget the mission of their institutions after being elevated to higher ranks. Cases of this are rampant, and now the buzz is that there is a "bubble" in administrators and staff throughout colleges and universities in the US. Maybe the "bubble" wouldn't get noticed as much if there was more attention to "teeth" and not so much to the "tail" of the operation.
I'm sure we can come off as overbearing and self-sure at times, but that's what they pay us for. After all, we're experts. We may be an expert in the most obscure piece of Medieval literature ever found (the pope's laundry list, for example), but by God we're an expert in something.
After all, if we aren't experts, then we can't certify that you learnt something while you were at the Kollege of Knowledge. That's our job, you know.
As for "NEVER TALK TO REAL PEOPLE" as a policy, I'm sure we've all seen how that phenomenon works in real life. During the Bush administration they were criticized for having a "bunker" mentality - I wonder if this is similar.
I know in higher ed it's very common for administrators to forget what it's like to teach classes; they sometimes forget the mission of their institutions after being elevated to higher ranks. Cases of this are rampant, and now the buzz is that there is a "bubble" in administrators and staff throughout colleges and universities in the US. Maybe the "bubble" wouldn't get noticed as much if there was more attention to "teeth" and not so much to the "tail" of the operation.
