The labs that are supposed to provide the personal touch increasingly use TV monitors, augmented by foreign teaching assistants with poor English. The one exception is if the school has an honors program, where class size is considerably smaller. Having one available and getting your child into it is another thing. To return, colleges and universities must have students to exist, but bigger for the one spells smaller for the other. C is for Corruption.
Major sports bring television's corruption to the campus.
This largess would roughly equal the recompense of fourteen profs, or a full department. The media, athletic directors and most administrators rhapsodize over this as a reality of life. If the coach wins, wealthy alumni use the team as a miniature pro franchise to wine and dine clients with deep pockets. Still, the weight of running the program is heavy, while playing a small role at best with the general student population, many of whom are struggling with part-time jobs. Indeed, the athletic facility is usually a lonely place.