tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post9070606536249739845..comments2024-03-27T14:45:28.176-05:00Comments on Adventus: Still Messing with TexasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-22864278133852428352012-04-23T22:13:10.627-05:002012-04-23T22:13:10.627-05:00This is an interesting..... great information foun...This is an interesting..... great information found here... Thanks very much!pay per headhttp://www.priceperheadcostarica.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-65399441351739451432011-07-30T17:49:42.103-05:002011-07-30T17:49:42.103-05:00I tried to post a comment above but can't get ...I tried to post a comment above but can't get the window.<br /><br />It is nudging me farther down the road I've been on since reading that the great Kip Tiernan died. I'm wasting my time arguing on the blogs. Faking it instead of really doing it.<br /><br />Anthony McCarthyThe Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-16302122812880600612011-07-20T13:10:37.153-05:002011-07-20T13:10:37.153-05:00Funny, but my "characterization" was rej...Funny, but my "characterization" was rejected by the Texas Legislature (as I said in my post). Not exactly a hot-bed of intellectual achievement and academic purity, the Lege.<br /><br />If you read Burka's article on the issue (link in the post), you'll note he reports that many of the non-tenured faculty at Texas A&M would be gone tomorrow if they could get the work elsewhere. A&M is much further down the road to the vision Perry and FreedomWorks have for higher education in Texas.<br /><br />Yes, tuition is going up; blame the Legislature for that. It was quite low when I was a student at UT. What changed was the willingness of the state to subsidize education, it wasn't because of changes in the faculty. And the concept of "best educators" in colleges and universities has always centered around the best minds available, and those minds are lured to colleges by the freedom to research in their field (as the President of UT said, in my post). The entire university community benefits from that situation, not from teachers hired and fired on the basis of student surveys and how pleased the students are with their grades (which is what is happening at A&M, and why teacher morale is so low).<br /><br />If you want to see higher education in Texas run into the ground the way public education has been, then by all means, support the position of FreedomWorks. If you don't, and I don't, then let the outcome they earnestly desire be known.<br /><br />I don't think it will get much support, not even in Texas.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-57370371807314063112011-07-20T10:45:05.686-05:002011-07-20T10:45:05.686-05:00You characterization is flatly wrong. No one is sa...You characterization is flatly wrong. No one is saying that research at UT is to be abandoned. However, tuition keeps increasing at UT, and students are taking out tens of thousands of dollars of student loans to get the best education possible. The best way to educate them is to put the best educators in classrooms, and that part of Higher Education has been neglected.<br /><br />It's not wrong to want the University of Texas to be the best it can be, it is however wrong to look at a system that isn't working for students and think everything is ok.Scott Spechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09081668885013581553noreply@blogger.com