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Article: The decline in undergraduate teaching: moral failure or market pressure?
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- September 1, 1994
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It appears to be a consensus of the mid-1990s that the quality of undergraduate teaching in the United States is in decline--or--if it's not getting any worse, it's already bad enough to justify public concern. And there is a near consensus, if not always explicit, that the root cause is a moral failure of American professors; they simply have too much power and they pay too much attention to their research and consulting and graduate students and too little attention to their undergraduates and lectures and advising and caring.
At its crudest, the argument is Charles Sykes' in ProfScam, which identifies all problems of U.S. higher education with a spolied, ...