Woo hoo!! Our kids went through state universities here in FL and these professors do not teach, with rare exception. And these are engineering professors! The difference in my engineering education and theirs, 30 years apart, was horrifying to me. They mostly taught themselves.
Yeah, my daughter grad from Embry riddle. Aerospace eng. Took 7 years because of military commitments, deployments etc. And an extra year because she was trying to teach herself most of the time. She got it done but what a haul
Currently doing an MS in systems engineering at Florida Tech, can definitely vouch for this. The head of the department 'teaches' by telling the same stories every class while talking for 3 hours straight with no breaks. He rarely actually taught the materials he expected us to know.
But get this - he was generally rude, insulted me and other students multiple times, yelled for no good reason, and did a whole lot of questionable things for an engineering professor.
I'm pretty happy to see the governor pass this, cause professors like that need the boot.
Woo hoo!! Our kids went through state universities here in FL and these professors do not teach, with rare exception. And these are engineering professors! The difference in my engineering education and theirs, 30 years apart, was horrifying to me. They mostly taught themselves.
Yeah, my daughter grad from Embry riddle. Aerospace eng. Took 7 years because of military commitments, deployments etc. And an extra year because she was trying to teach herself most of the time. She got it done but what a haul
Currently doing an MS in systems engineering at Florida Tech, can definitely vouch for this. The head of the department 'teaches' by telling the same stories every class while talking for 3 hours straight with no breaks. He rarely actually taught the materials he expected us to know.
But get this - he was generally rude, insulted me and other students multiple times, yelled for no good reason, and did a whole lot of questionable things for an engineering professor.
I'm pretty happy to see the governor pass this, cause professors like that need the boot.
As an IT student, I can vouch for that.
To be fair the IT field moves faster than the speed of the curriculum. And the old saying those who cannot do, teach.