tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post8263119146628672583..comments2023-10-31T09:46:47.703-04:00Comments on The Desultory Life & Times of a Public Citizen: Black men aren’t graduating; Black women can’t find dates….oh well, at least I beat the odds!!!Citizen Ojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07001825524756033450noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post-20294354092725950222009-04-07T23:04:00.000-04:002009-04-07T23:04:00.000-04:00Ojo, The idea of turning some HBCUs into JCs and t...Ojo, The idea of turning some HBCUs into JCs and then funneling their students to the four year schools would make the most sense I've heard regarding their plight.<BR/>The JCs could do the remediation and the four year schools would get the best of the two year students.<BR/>Get your idea out there - it's the only way for these schools to survive.uglyblackjohnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404995571276457138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post-89012329847460790052009-04-07T17:02:00.000-04:002009-04-07T17:02:00.000-04:00I am not sure how to weed out the good from bad, b...I am not sure how to weed out the good from bad, but maybe we need to have benchmarks or contracts like they have in more higher paying jobs. I know at NCCU, the tenured professors just start collecting a check. I think they should have specific benchmarks. Its not like black college classrooms are by the 100's like white institutions. I know from my college experience there were few black professors who actually took the time to try and make a difference. I reported the dead weights as I saw them to the administration, but the administration needed to be let go. After awhile, the good professors just give up and conform to the masses. At my job, we have to set goals and timelines to complete them. I am of the business profession and with the way the economy is going, there is PLENTY of opportunity for creative ideas, but professors use that as a crutch...NCCU Alumnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431475938350960495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post-1218268354539654572009-04-07T02:25:00.000-04:002009-04-07T02:25:00.000-04:00@NCCU AlumniSo how do we weed out which are the go...@NCCU Alumni<BR/><BR/>So how do we weed out which are the good professors and which are the ones that need to be let go?<BR/><BR/>I'm not convinced that we're producing students who want to be professors. It's kind of a job many people take to hold them over. It's usually the older professors that have a passion for doing it. But getting stuck with an adjunct prof who's just doing it for a paycheck sucks. Those are the ones who end up screwing the students.the uppity negrohttp://uppitynegronetwork.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post-24207226705672120652009-04-06T21:12:00.000-04:002009-04-06T21:12:00.000-04:00Citizen Wifey,Says Amen!Citizen Wifey,<BR/><BR/>Says Amen!Citizen Ojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07001825524756033450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post-67515315852767992562009-04-06T18:43:00.000-04:002009-04-06T18:43:00.000-04:00Great blog piece! I really think that SOME HBCU's ...Great blog piece! I really think that SOME HBCU's have lost focus and have forgotten about their reason for existence. At the student level I don't like the product that is being produced and at the professor level I am in total disgust at how these dead weight tenured instructors do nothing and really show no enthusiasm or encouragement which reflects on the student's productivity...Some HBCU's and its hard but I have to put NCCU in the list, need a total overhaul of the instructors b/c some aren't qualified and they don't possess the "gumption" (an old school term) to produce decent students!!NCCU Alumnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431475938350960495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7914710637340292931.post-71270299555387238472009-04-06T11:47:00.000-04:002009-04-06T11:47:00.000-04:00MAybe it's the elitist Negro in me, but I've met s...MAybe it's the elitist Negro in me, but I've met some people from some of these round-the-way HBCUs like Miles College and Edward Waters College and....<BR/><BR/>.....um<BR/><BR/>I seriously be wondering if they're just handing out degrees to thoroughly unqualified people. Now maybe it's because I went to these really super private schools where it was a big deal about who went there and the name, but I think a "Miles College" per se would close before they'd let Fisk University close.<BR/><BR/>Or even take Morris Brown for instance...with whom many students stay on ITC's campus, these kids BARELY graduated high school, and they're coming from near and far out of state and in-state to a school that has very little facilities. And moreover, last I heard, THEY'RE NOT FULLY ACCREDITED!<BR/><BR/>Like what are we doing here?!?!!?the uppity (and sometimes elitist) negrohttp://uppitynegronetwork.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com