Comments on: CSUF Giving Up on “University Heights” Fiasco?

By: Jt

Jt — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:00:58 +0000

Oh, I missed the “grading papers” – yeah, I agree. TA’s are fine for running scantron sheets through the scanner but grading papers, not so much.

By: R U Kiddin' Me

R U Kiddin' Me — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:49:45 +0000

Pot meet kettle.

By: Joe Sipowicz

Joe Sipowicz — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:34:45 +0000

Bad for the undergrads, of course.

By: Jt

Jt — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:08:47 +0000

Bad for the TAs or undergrads? The TAs get paid about $800 per month to grade or lecture or help students with technical stuff for 20 hours per week. This is while they’re fulltime grad students. The best ones sometimes also get internships to help an instructor at a JC. After they get their grad degrees if they’re good we’ll hire them to teach classes for us. That can then turn into fulltime teaching or a permanent position with a JC. It’s a merit-based apprenticeship basically. I only use TAs for basic remedial-type 100 classes myself. As a former TA at 2 other universities it worked for me.

By: Joe Sipowicz

Joe Sipowicz — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:46:58 +0000

Jt, I’m sure there are some really competent 22 year old TAs out there. However, the idea of recent graduates being put in a position of providing non-lecturing instruction or grading papers to lower division undergrads is quite deplorable.

By: Jane H

Jane H — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:54:02 +0000

‘Tis true.

By: Jt

Jt — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:08:19 +0000

If K-12 did its job you wouldn’t need TAs to teach students the remedial stuff they should know before they ever get inside a University. That being said I know some 22-year olds who could teach a few seniors more than a thing or two. And if you don’t want public universities enjoy your 785-branch campus University of Phoenix franchise, where a diploma is always another soul-crushing, debt-incurring, private bank loan away and all the “knowledge workers” use the same books so as not to muddy the corporate waters too much.

By: Joe Sipowicz

Joe Sipowicz — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:53:49 +0000

Although I have very little sympathy for the beneficiaries of a grossly subsidized “education” I would point out that one of the reasons CSU and UC educations are so expensive is the runaway cost of their bureaucracies and an underemployed professoriat.

The TA scandal in public universities is unconscionable. If you don’t know what this means, I’ll spell it out: the deployment of 22 year-olds to teach 20 year-olds. It’s a goddam disgrace.

By: Tuco Ramirez

Tuco Ramirez — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 01:24:16 +0000

Excellent post Steve Brow. Many parents and students are concerned about the value of a college education where huge sums need to be borrowed to stay in school.

By: Stanley Fiala

Stanley Fiala — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 23:21:56 +0000

Virtually everyone here agrees that you are very, very, very stupid person, Golem. So your anti-Semitic crapola may not fly here because this is not Orange Juice where such idiotic thinking is tolerated by Gröfaz.

Golem of the Prague is history and tourist attraction like Mickey Mouth in Anaheim — you moron mongoloid — and no one thinks that it has anything to do with anti-Semitic expression. See pictures and study the text you ignoramus.

EU is very strict on that.

You are simply using your Jewishness to harass people like everything else you do. That is all.

You think that you have some special power to call everyone anti-Semitic and that people will soil their pants when you do that.

On the other hand not every Jew is Einstein and you are the proof of it.

If you do not wan to be addressed by your Jewish culture do not advertise it and say that you are an American.

When you came to OJ first thing you have post was “I am Jewish”…… so you are Jewish!…… so shut up idiot!

I have no problem if anyone would refer to me as Czech Fiala or Bohemian Fiala since Czech Republic is referred to as Bohemia.

FYI, the Bohemia is not Eastern Europe but Central one….. uneducated idiot.