Instructors should limit conferences
This may seem a bit personal, but it affects others as well.
College instructors should be limited on the amount of conferences they are allowed to attend per semester.
Sure they pick up ideas, learn new techniques and learn about developments in the ever-changing world of education...but these conferences shouldn't interfere with the education of the students.
I have heard students complain before about this problem, and recently I too have become victim to a wandering instructor...the same one I might add.
Nothing personal about the instructor, I think he/she is a great person. But by being gone -- what seems like every other week -- how is the instructor expected to instruct?
One thing I'm not clear on:
Is it the instructors' choice to attend so many conferences, or is the institution requiring professors to leave their students for a week...several times in one semester?
My soloution:
Limit instructors to one conference per semester.
The value of the information brought back cannot equal the success of a student trying to improve their own life.
posted by will @ 12:25 PM
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2 Comments:
I agree as I feel that it may not always necessarily about what an instructor can learn but how much money it could possibly bring CCC in the long term. I dare not make any accusations as to any instructors that might be, but I would not be too surprised if money or the possiblity of bringing in money is the root cause of instructor absence due conferences. However an even hotter scoop would by as to why the Administration now will not allow any Student Government Executive Board Member to serve as the Editor of what will be the resurrection of the Campus Communicator. Hmmmmm...kinda, sorta makes you think, eh?
If college administrators are preventing student government officers from taking on management roles for the student newspaper, then they're staying the course.
The student media policy Mitzi and I drafted -- the one that was revised and adopted by the Board of Trustees -- banned Student Council members from running the newspaper due to the enormous potential for conflicts of interest.
Of the college censorship cases the Student Press Law Center reports, almost half involve student governments trying to restrict what newspapers can print, deny them funding as retribution or fire their editors.
Of course, no one suggests that Craven's student council would be that nefarious. But for the same reasons that Gov. Mike Easley isn't the publisher of the News & Observer, student government and student media need to be separate.
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