jpm34

As the original author of this post, I see your point. I don't mean to be blaming students...more so the admin in a sometimes desperate attempt to recruit and retain more and more (paying) customers. I worry that the whole system is unstable...I think things are more stressful compared to when I was an undergrad. I sometimes think we (faculty, admin, both) are making things worse in an attempt to make it better.

As the author of the original post, I do want to say that I'm not opposed to accommodations and work hard to make sure students are able to master the content in my courses. I'm cool with puppy rooms even... I wrote this as a morning rant. These are just my observations as a mid career professional. There is just so much of this. The crux of the problem, if there is one, is the corporatization of the university experience. I wrote an earlier post about grade inflation that touched on this too...