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Originally Posted by G-Benz
I wonder if the use of TAs or "Teaching Assistants" (what we called them), is akin to hospitals using interns...cost.
If tenured professors had to teach the myriad classes that were being offered at the universities, I would suspect tuition costs would rise a LOT faster than they currently do. That is the same justification the medical community uses for staffing interns to do the grunt patient work...keeps costs down.
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Another issue is the shear amount of classes in a day. Some classes that are required for every student have so many sections that there aren't enough professors available for all of them. For instance, some classes at Utah State were available from 7:30 AM to 10 PM. There is so much extra work required, that many Profs only teach 3 or 4 classes per day. I don't know how many classes he taught, but I remember one very dedicated Astronomy Professor who taught my class in the morning, (10:30 AM IIRC) and usually didn't head home til 9:30 or 10. (I could see his car from my dorm room.) He was in his 60s, but his stamina was better than mine.
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