Professor? What Professor?

A good many college graduates, this June, will be unable to obtain employment recommendations from any professor. It’s not that they are totally incompetent (though some of them are); rather, in four years as undergraduates they never have talked with any real live professors.

This complaint is especially vehement at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Lectured at, for the most part, by young instructors or graduate assistants, all the way to the bachelor’s degree, the unfortunate students—or a great part of them —never have held a dialogue with a senior scholar, let alone sat on the other end of the log from Mark Hopkins. Behemoth University has no time or place for personal intellectual relationships of any significance.

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A good many college graduates, this June, will be unable to obtain employment recommendations from any professor. It’s not that they are totally incompetent (though some of them are); rather, in four years as undergraduates they never have talked with any real live professors.

This complaint is especially vehement at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Lectured at, for the most part, by young instructors or graduate assistants, all the way to the bachelor’s degree, the unfortunate students—or a great part of them —never have held a dialogue with a senior scholar, let alone sat on the other end of the log from Mark Hopkins. Behemoth University has no time or place for personal intellectual relationships of any significance.