They Shoot Courses, Don't They?
More on the pained life of professors [see yesterday's post, "Suffering Succotash"], from the newspaper at Brown University (seventh most expensive American college in 2003):
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
LEAVE COURSES IN THE LURCH
For many Brown students, shopping period begins sometime in August, when they find that their favorite courses have been marked on the Brown Online Course Announcement with one dreaded red word: CANCELED.
Ariana Raufi '09, who was looking forward to taking PL 9: "Philosophy of East and West," said it was "a huge letdown" to learn that it had been canceled. Raufi decided to replace the course with a Middle East studies class, only to learn that it, too, had been canceled.
"I didn't even know this happened," she said.
Professor James McClain, chair of the Department of History, attributes his department's 13 cancellations to a wealth of research opportunities. "Every year one-third of our professors are trying to get money for research or a stipend to go away from the University for a semester or a year. This year, six or seven professors got outside funding" after their courses were placed in the Course Announcement Bulletin, he said….History added only four courses to replace the lost ones…
MOST CANCELED COURSES BY DEPARTMENT
History - 13
Political Science - 9
Comparative Literature - 6
Economics - 5
Geology - 5
Religious Studies - 5
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