CNN Money:

Top non-engineering fields. Only three of the 15 top paying degrees were outside the field of engineering — but they each still require math skills.

For computer science majors, who specialize in programming and software, the average salary was $61,407. Graduates with degrees in actuarial science took home about $56,320; and jobs for students in construction management paid about $53,199. Each of these fields has paid well throughout the years, Koc said.

What happened to well-rounded? There are far fewer people graduating with math-based majors, compared to their liberal-arts counterparts, which is why they are paid at such a premium. The fields of engineering and computer science each make up about 4% of all college graduates, while social science and history each comprise 16%, Koc noted.

As a result, salaries for graduates who studied fields like social work command tiny paychecks, somewhere in the vicinity of $29,000. English, foreign language and communications majors make about $35,000, Koc said.

“It’s a supply and demand issue,” he added. “So few grads offer math skills, and those who can are rewarded.”

Major in something that has to do with math. Yeah, E!

I implemented a policy that if students write to me asking what’s going to be on the exam, what the readings are, what we covered in class yesterday because you were attending to your BF who had gall bladder surgery after an allergy attack, etc. – things clearly addressed in the syllabus or course schedule, then the message will be ignored. Likewise for messages without proper salutation or closing. Our relationship is professional.

When they approach me after class and say, “You never responded to me asking about the test,” I ask whether they’ve consulted the syllabus. Works well.

from Anakin

I think next term I am going to start the course with a slide entitled “Things You Probably Learned In Kindergarten But Have Since Forgotten”

from Oseph

Hmm. I may have to do that! It would be fun. Of course, I haven’t had the crazy snowflakes these guys have.

“working hard is expected; therefore having worked hard is not sufficient justification for changing a grade;” grades are not “given,” they are earned.

SmithfieldMuse

Quote from: southerntransplant on April 16, 2009, 10:29:36 PM
Me: “Well, I would suggest finding another way, because this one isn’t really working for you.”

“Course grades are posted. Please remember that grades represent the accumulation of performance during the semester, not your potential as a person or a student. Grades are not negotiable. Email requesting a grade change will not be answered. Threatening email is a violation of the X University Code of Student Conduct and will be reported to campus authorities.” Kedves

“I add a line to my standard policies section in my syllabus that says that students emailing me makeup work will get a return email from me saying I received it, and they should keep this as a receipt – if they don’t get an email from me, they should assume I haven’t gotten it, and it is their responsibility to retry the email, fax it, or drop it off in person and resolve the problem within 48 hours.” Oseph
OR
“Email: Students may email assignments with permission from the Professor. If you are emailing an assignment it is the responsibility of the student to ensure that the Professor receives the email. I will respond within 24 hours that I have received the email, if you do not get a response you must follow up with a phone call, office visit, or talk to me in class. Any assignments that are emailed that have not been recieved within 48 hours of the time I have agreed to let you email me will not be accepted. Late assignments are still subject to the penalties laid out in the syllabus.” Rowan1

“Students aren’t required to be literate to take my class, according to official policy, and it shows.” Fosca Student email forums

Ouch.

I would just like to know how the student is so familiar with the sound of giving birth to Satan. Now there’s some life experience that worth some credit hours.

from Conjugate

“the textbooks are his new talismans against failure.” from Llanfair

I do try to offer as much fake help as I can. That’s just the kind of guy I am. t_r_b
Chronicle

“The world needs people who can do things, not explain why they couldn’t.” Geonerd

Magistra: “never, EVER become the Dean of Students. It is NOT a promotion. It is the lowest rung of Hell.”

“If you need help learning, great, that’s what I’m here for. If you can’t think, what good is learning?” Fosca

the final that my roommate my frosh year had in Old Testament Survey — this is it, in toto: “Trace the history of the Hebrew people from the Exodus to the fall of the Southern Kingdom.” Literally no joke. If I’m lyin’ I’m dyin’. Some people used 4 blue books.

I could probably fill four blue books, but I’m not sure it would be what the prof was looking for.

from the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s fora

I am. I am. I even woke up the doggie.

Read pages 353 and 354 on the Chronicle forum on “favorite” student emails.

It’s on feminine problems, that not so fresh feeling, etc.

Page 355 on what men do when they get that “not so fresh” feeling.

What a lighter side to some really depressing student emails.

Okay… and now I am giggling over all the Princess Bride references fortuitously beginning at the top of the page.

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