Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills

Re:Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills by matwood on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @10:49AM (#14497623)

> Engineering professors are incentivized not to teach undergraduates -- indeed, there's a whole system of reward and punishment around the assignment of teaching duties. A light load is coveted, and the most elite professors manage to teach as few as two courses per year.

I wonder if this has to do with the type of school. Where I went to college, the dept. chair on down rotated through the intro programming classes and then taught their speciality classes. The school definitely focused on teaching above research though that can also have downsides.

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Re:Many Colleges Fail to Improve Critical-Thinking Skills by sevensor on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @11:08AM (#14497792)

This is a good point. I'm sure there's a lot of variation between schools. All of my university time has been at Big State Universities. I think the Big State U experience explains a lot about the state of the American workforce, however, since so many students pass through that system.

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