The group seeking to unionize 2,100 Yale University graduate students acted as if Wednesday's poll of student sentiment would be a slam dunk.
These disrespectful, ageist challenges to competency speak to rising student sentiment that, given how much they are paying in fees, they don't want to be taught by junior academics.
While the decision was announced before most students returned to campus, one gauge of student sentiment — comments posted on the website of The Daily Princetonian — reflected a range of views.
The Boston-based startup's survey tools were working; teachers and principals were measuring student sentiment around education, safety and stress; and its analytics platform was helping thousands of schools evaluate and promote what standardized testing can't quantify.
The Boston-based startup's survey tools were working; teachers and principals were measuring student sentiment around education, safety and stress; and its analytics platform was helping thousands of schools evaluate and promote what standardized testing can't quantify.
"There has always been a strong student sentiment for a pub on campus," Taylor said, "and my hunch is that students still strongly favor such a facility.
"It frustrates me, even makes me angry, to know that my parents are paying more and more for an education which is giving me less and less," said Valerie Szybala, a third-year student at Virginia Tech, encapsulating many students' sentiments.
Echoing the students' sentiments regarding their bond with Cooper Union was John Jay Iselin, who is stepping down in June after 12 years as president of Cooper Union and thus was presiding at his final school commencement.
Jonathan Levin, Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of Stanford GSB, evoked McDonald as having "an extraordinary positive nature and an unwavering respect for students," sentiments that were also shared by McDonald's colleagues and former students.
One student's response does a particularly good job of summarizing the majority of students' sentiments: The assignments in this class were above anything I expected.
