The University of North Carolina - Charlotte

Date: Dec 31 1969
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
It was just a little disheartening to learn that most of the TA's and GA's in my departnment were from out-of-state. Only two were graduates of UNCC. Half of them had BA's in another field. How in god's name that can even happen is beyond me.

My impression of the graduate faculty of my department is quite low. They were mostly idiots. Program directors should not have held such positions. Perhaps their Ph.Ds qualified them for their positions, but their personal qualities left much to be desired. Getting time with the graduate faculty was difficult because, I believe, I was an in-state student. Out-of-state GA's and TA's and regular grad students got much more help and attention than the in-staters did. I wonder why?

Some graduate faculty displayed open prejudice toward some students. Some students rarely attended class, yet they maintained a high average. Some of the very same students copied their research data straight from Wikipedia. Another openly joked about submitting papers that she had written for BA classes that she took in another school.

This is just one department in the humanities—one that seems to have gotten a lot of poor ratings. The rest of the school may be fine. However, had i known just how bad the graduate program was, I'd have taken out a huge loan and attended another school.