From Shameless to Disgusting and Outrageous

 

How One College Handled a Sexual Assault Complaint – NYTimes.com.

I did comment:

I am a former math professor. I taught at Washington University in St. Louis, and at a regional state school. At both places, I have seen outrageous behavior with respect to both research and education. I have concluded that there are many selfish and unscrupulous people in our institutions of higher learning – and I don’t just mean administrators – and manhy times they rise to the top.

Never, though, did I think that professors who shamelessly take advantage of naive students, when it comes to their education, would take advantage of this same naivete in order to protect the “business”.

Though scamming students, when it comes to claiming to educate them, can’t be compared to violent criminal behaviour, all of these behaviors, found throughout our system of higher ed, are symptoms of a really sick system.

It’s as if a cancer started when universities saw themseleves as “businesses”. And, that cancer is about to destroy education (except for the lucky few) throughout our country. (Yes, even high school. Teachers learn – or more likely, don’t learn – in college.) Now, it appears this disease has reached the level of violently destroying lifes. Sickening. Really sickening.