>>12765413Not a full professor and actually enjoy teaching but I do understand the temptation. We aren't actually paid by your student fees, and the university system is set up so as to dump as much as possible on us for shit pay. A lot of people spend half their time writing grant applications. Not as a figure of speech either, literally half the time academics are begging for money. Then in the remaining time, we've got to somehow churn out enough papers to keep job prospects alive, while also looking for new jobs if we don't have tenure. Then in what little time remains, we have to manage teaching, if we have it, and try not to let our interpersonal relationships fall apart due to time constraints or badly managed stress levels, and those of us who are lucky might even want to try having a life as well after all that.
Some just plain suck at teaching, but:
The only way this will ever change is by pressure placed on the university system as a whole since your money is being used to fund everything but your education. It's mostly going to massive university endowments and their managers and the admin bloat. There should be real pressure placed on universities to actually invest in education and academia again or they're just going to be full blown clown schools (more than they are already).
