did ya'll hear? UTSA receives federal funding

[Kermit]

You know Pee Wee, after this caused you trouble you think you'd learn a lesson and maybe just keep your mouth shut instead of pissing off people who do that kind of thing. I don't like UTSA and I think this dude is annoying, but you're like a child a lot of the time too.

Eh. It's funny when Pee-Wee goes bananas.

[PakiDan]

Noooo .

The sad thing is that I know some really smart people that went there, but they are so outnumbered by idiots that it devalues their degrees.

It would also help if my diploma didn't look like it was created on ing Printshop and run off on Romo's home ink-jet printer. It just LOOKS cheap.

The good news, though, is that if you want a cheaper place to do undergrad and plan on going to grad school later, the profs there really appreciate people that actually want to learn and possess a decent amount of ambition, and you can get some really great recs. There are a lot of awesome faculty members there in certain departments, you just have to do the research to find them.

It's a STATE University... not a private school like RICE, that can afford and is ALLOWED to be more selective. For what it is, UTSA is a great school with HUGE potential. Haters will always keep on hating.

I went to BYU and UTSA and I must say, UTSA's curriculum is nothing to sneeze at. I'm glad they are moving up in both the sports and academic arenas.

-Paki

[Jekka]

It's a STATE University... not a private school like RICE, that can afford and is ALLOWED to be more selective. For what it is, UTSA is a great school with HUGE potential. Haters will always keep on hating.

I went to BYU and UTSA and I must say, UTSA's curriculum is nothing to sneeze at. I'm glad they are moving up in both the sports and academic arenas.

-Paki

I'm not saying that my education at UTSA was worthless - I got a good education because I worked my ass off for it, and it ended up getting me into Michigan largely because of my recommendations rather than the school's name (or so says the admissions counselor that I talked to). I never wanted to knock the faculty, because there are some really brilliant people teaching there.

That being said, the way the administration works at UTSA, faculty gets rewarded for good reviews in the class-end assessments that everyone fills out. Those reviews decide salary increases and make or break the track to tenure. As positions in academia are getting harder and harder to come by because more and more people are getting advanced degrees, a lot of faculty tend to teach in a way that makes the students happy rather than making them learn/use critical thinking as much as they could.

Not ALL faculty, but many do this.

The end result is a largely commuter school that accept more than 90% of their applicants and holds their hands until they finish with their degree if the student wants to do it that way. I spent a lot of time in classes surrounded by people who would willingly admit that they had no ing clue what was going on, somehow manage a C in the class, and skate by to the next semester.

Also, I don't know if you have ever seen a budget break-down for the school, but it's pretty ing skewed against the liberal arts, which is one place where a school can earn a lot of prestige. I took a class my senior year from a prof that had us examine and analyze the school's budget, and something like 3% of the school's funding was going to the liberal arts - and that included any sort of funding for research on the part of faculty, etc. That's pretty paltry. And yet there's money to dump into a football program.

I am glad that UTSA is getting a little more selective, and with the top 10% of high school classes overwhelmingly going to UT because they have automatic admission, a lot of people are turning to UTSA as their alternative, and it's making things a little better. I'm not going to pretend that there aren't some major issues with the school, though.

[johnsmith]

lol, UTSA.



lol, Pee Wee

[PakiDan]

I'm not saying that my education at UTSA was worthless - I got a good education because I worked my ass off for it, and it ended up getting me into Michigan largely because of my recommendations rather than the school's name (or so says the admissions counselor that I talked to). I never wanted to knock the faculty, because there are some really brilliant people teaching there.

That being said, the way the administration works at UTSA, faculty gets rewarded for good reviews in the class-end assessments that everyone fills out. Those reviews decide salary increases and make or break the track to tenure. As positions in academia are getting harder and harder to come by because more and more people are getting advanced degrees, a lot of faculty tend to teach in a way that makes the students happy rather than making them learn/use critical thinking as much as they could.

Not ALL faculty, but many do this.

The end result is a largely commuter school that accept more than 90% of their applicants and holds their hands until they finish with their degree if the student wants to do it that way. I spent a lot of time in classes surrounded by people who would willingly admit that they had no ing clue what was going on, somehow manage a C in the class, and skate by to the next semester.

Also, I don't know if you have ever seen a budget break-down for the school, but it's pretty ing skewed against the liberal arts, which is one place where a school can earn a lot of prestige. I took a class my senior year from a prof that had us examine and analyze the school's budget, and something like 3% of the school's funding was going to the liberal arts - and that included any sort of funding for research on the part of faculty, etc. That's pretty paltry. And yet there's money to dump into a football program.

I am glad that UTSA is getting a little more selective, and with the top 10% of high school classes overwhelmingly going to UT because they have automatic admission, a lot of people are turning to UTSA as their alternative, and it's making things a little better. I'm not going to pretend that there aren't some major issues with the school, though.

We miss you Jekka.

[ShoogarBear]

It's a STATE University... not a private school like RICE, that can afford and is ALLOWED to be more selective. For what it is, UTSA is a great school with HUGE potential. Haters will always keep on hating.

I went to BYU and UTSA and I must say, UTSA's curriculum is nothing to sneeze at. I'm glad they are moving up in both the sports and academic arenas.

-Paki

There are plenty of state university that are nearly as selective as the best privates, so that's no excuse.

However, my original comment was not about UTSA itself, since I know next to nothing about the ins ution, but about the douchbaggery that got the College Forum shut down.