Deacsfan27
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Wakephan is dead on.
I don't differentiate between Mississippi and Alabama. One big cesspool as far as I am concerned.
NC and SC are branded together. Panthers and Hurricanes. Even James Taylor didn't specify which one he was talking about.
I'll help you out district. Don't be afraid to say what you feel. It's all of that damn Yankee filth that's infiltrated OUR city and OUR University. It ain't your daddy's WFU no more and I say we build a fucking wall!! That's the only way that we get our identity back.
And what areas would you say Wake needs to work on outside of athletics?
Tuition price?
Admin bloat?
What about Wake specifically to you is causing it to "lose its identity".
The first two every school experiences, and Wake is well aware of it.
You know what? I don't think so. At least not the people posting on this thread.
Every single basketball game we lose, even in double-overtime, results in calls for the dismissal of the fucking University president. How many people on this thread can right now tell me about the enrollments in their academic major? Which professors have retired and which new faculty we've appointed in your home department? Maybe you get periodic updates from your fraternity or college. That's just fundraising too.
Wake Forest is for us the sweet hat we wear and bumper sticker we display that give us the opportunity to talk about our college experience or our fandom -- the exaggerated stories we tell at the neighborhood barbecue about how many cool things we did in our early twenties. But most of all it is the performance of our football and basketball teams year in and year out, which gives us a chance to reminisce or complain about how different it was back in our day and to talk shit to our co-workers. Without sports success, we're too embarrassed to even wear that deacs hat or talk shit at the water cooler. That's your loss of identity right there.
20% increase in student enrollment
Prioritizing the business school over all others
Professor's don't all have PhDs anymore
Removal of need-blind admission
Plans to move undergrad classes off campus
You know a bigger problem for Wake and the continual lack of effort put into basketball and football is that for a number of people that is what keeps them connected to the university since a large percentage go on to more education be it law school, med school etc... I loved my time at Wake and it provided the stepping stone for going and getting my advanced degrees but it's the last school on my list now. Sports allow people to feel connected, the inability of the university to understand that is infuriating. So when Wake hits me up for money I get to weigh it against the other schools that I more recently attended that were more essential in my current success.
20% increase in student enrollment
Prioritizing the business school over all others
Professor's don't all have PhDs anymore
Removal of need-blind admission
Plans to move undergrad classes off campus
Don't mistake your obsessive #phandom with the normal Wake Forest alumni experience.
Professor's don't all have PhDs anymore
Don't mistake your obsessive #phandom with the normal Wake Forest alumni experience.
Nevermind, this is nonsense, and it shows a real lack of understanding about how higher education works. The problem at schools across the US is not hiring under-qualified instructors without terminal degrees; the problem is choosing instead to hire plenty-qualified PhDs from the growing pool of contingent teachers without full-time faculty positions as adjunct labor. Again, I don't know that Wake is doing this, and I'd bet that they aren't. Yet. But lamenting that Wake is hiring faculty without terminal degrees is completely untrue because there are thousands and thousands of qualified PhD-holders without jobs that will work for poverty-level wages.
Again, I don't know that Wake is doing this, and I'd bet that they aren't. Yet. But lamenting that Wake is hiring faculty without terminal degrees is completely untrue
Jesus christ - could you be any more condescending?
Wake used to tout that all their classes were being taught by PhDs. They can't do that anymore. It has nothing to do with tenure vs adjunct.
My post wasn't meant to be condescending. Show me evidence -- any evidence at all -- that a full-time faculty member at Wake doesn't have their terminal degree.