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9/13 Anthro professor investigated student life by becoming a student:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/09/13/freshman_year/index.html
'In the book, I look at things that the university says it wants to
focus on. They say, "We're a community of scholars, we're a community
of diversity, we're about intellectual life." That's what the
university thinks it is. From what I saw, the student's version of
these concepts is very different.'
\_ oh gawd, not to criticize necessarily, but did anyone else find this
really boring? basically: students at fourth-tier university don't
like to give the impression that they're studying hard so they're
not branded as nerds/overachievers, they care more about grades than
learning anything, they take loans to pay for tuition/housing, and
part-time jobs to pay for iPods and random entertainment crap.
\_ FWIW, Berkeley students are exactly the same way - only
difference I can see is that Mommy and Daddy usually pay for the
iPod and the random entertainment crap.
\_ I didn't find a lot of Berkeley students to be particularly
wealthy, spoiled, or coddled. Some were. It's nothing
like private school, though. You should see the kids at
the private liberal arts colleges. I found UCB students
to be harder-working and less-privileged than many.
Addendum: I found a lot of academic, political, and
philosophical discussion at UCB. I submit the MOTD as an
example. That the professor thinks her students and those
at Yale aren't much different is what makes an NAU
professor and a Yale professor different.
\_ Ditto. For all the extremism and stupidity I was extremely
impressed by the general character of the people I was at
Cal with. FWIW, in the "real world" I've also generally
found the above to be peoples' view of Berkeley. -John |
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| www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/09/13/freshman_year/index.html -> www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/09/13/freshman_year/index_np.html Norther n Arizona University in Flagstaff, Cathy Small was feeling more out of p lace as a college professor than she had when she studied social stratif ication on a remote Polynesian island. Befuddled by a student population that seemed increasingly disrespectful and uninterested, Small decided that the best way to understand her students (and improve her teaching) was to become a university freshman herself. So, in fall of 2002, when she was 52, Small enrolled at NAU, moved into a dorm, signed up for a meal plan, handed over her faculty parking pass, and told family and friends that she wanted to be as lonely and homesick as the typical freshman, and thus wouldn't be able to hang out much dur ing the school year. For one year, Small took classes, hung out in the s tudent lounge (where she once got busted by the RA for drinking beer), participated in pickup volleyball games, and asked her fellow students a lot of questions. Want to read the rest of this article and all of Salon for FREE? Just watch a brief advertisement to get a FREE Site Pass for today. Or you can join Salon Premium today and rea d Salon without ads. |