The University of North Carolina - Charlotte

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
In all fairness , I must say there are some excellent teachers working for this university. Unfortunately, they don't work in the department of my focus and employment. There are absolutely brilliant, approachable, good-natured, and PROFESSIONAL teachers to be found in the sciences, social sciences, engineering, architecture, and math departments.

Then there are departments which seem to have no real leadership, as well as some who seem to hire the worst teachers. One department in particular retains the majority of its long-term teachers as staff members and never considers them for fulltime faculty positions, preferring to hire young, inexperienced, and incompetent graduate students to fill faculty openings.

In general, this university does not hire its own graduates for faculty positions. The last time that I looked through the list of faculty, less than one-half of one percent of the teachers earned their terminal degrees from UNCC. What does that tell you about UNCC's OWN opinion of its school?

If one seeks a liberal arts education, he should think twice about it, not only because of the logistics of employment, but also because of the general failures on the part department chairs to provide a wide range of subjects and to hire teachers whose CVs indicate a wide range of educational, work, and life experiences. The College of Education,the Religious Studies department, the English Department and the Athletics Departments provide good examples of this failure.

Unless there are sweeping changes in present administration and faculty at UNCC, my children will never set foot on this campus.

Mr. Bowles would do well to spend some time speaking to both students and faculty IN HIS OFFICE to see the real picture and to hear opinions from students and faculty in an environment in which they may express themselves freely and honestly with no fear of reprisal.