"Give students decent facilities and you'll see the difference in their behaviour," says Barton.
"It's just bananas to think you can give a student a decent valid education with 47 kids in a class," agreed Karmali.
Sims is clearly unhappy with unionization, but he acknowledges that universities have lagged in providing adequate benefits for graduate students, particularly decent health insurance, and that under the union, students at the University of Iowa have negotiated successfully for these benefits.
With large loan-forgiveness benefits going to graduate students earning decent incomes, the Obama administration has managed to turn the student loan system upside down.
With U.S. colleges enthralled by the prospect of full-tuition international students, and a range of businesses willing to falsify applications for students, admission is easier than ever for rich Chinese students with decent academics and some modicum of English.
The English program at UIUC wasn't very good about placing their graduate students in decent tenure track jobs, but it was outstanding in training those graduate students to teach writing, and reinforcing that training by requiring most of the students to teach two sections of rhetoric every semester in order to survive.
It would reduce two years of tuition costs to zero for students with decent grades and who graduate within three years.
Many of the dancers she chose for "Chapel Songs" looked like advanced students with decent technical skills but not enough performing experience to have learned to project.
I was opposed, under the presumption that S.D.S. meant Students for Decent Styles, a group that had been active in fighting spaghetti-strap dresses at my high school.
Take any school where there is political and administrative support, funds raised and earmarked specifically for the instruction of students, a decent physical plant, small class size, dedicated faculty and committed parents, and there are sure to be positive results.
