School of Education and Human Development Opens Doors 6/1

[Dooby]

This was posted on the recruiting board, but it is kind of dead at the moment. It will offer undergraduate and post-graduate degrees. Feel free to speculate as to what this means.

[overcusser]

School of education??? Somehow I don't think it going to be too crowded. Let me say that we should be paying teachers a heck of a lot more than we currently do in this country. That being said, do you think there is going to be a lot of people taking on the burden of financing the price of SMU tuition when met with the prospect of a low paying teaching postion upon graduation?

[Stallion]

perhaps Laura Bush.

[Ponymon]

Overcusser, The teachers in this country aren't hurting for funds given the amount of vacation time they get during the year. However, every time people think they are underpaid they vote a tax increase (property tax increase in Texas). Where does the funds from this increase go? Why to the local school administration of course so that busing laws, etc. will faithfully be followed! For instance, the city of Dallas formerly had 12 administrators for all of DISD. Now we have 1,500+ administrators officing in a skyscraper in downtown Dallas making $50K/year average salary! A couple of years ago Forbes had an article about the administration's pay for most of the states. In most cases it is 50% of the total cost of education! And you thought the United Way's administration was ridiculous at 8% of total proceeds collected! The current system is broken and needs a dose of free market economics. In a free market, the better teachers will be compensated and the teachers that aren't doing their job will have to visit the local job office just as other workers have to that work in private industry.

[me@smu]

I think we would be suprised at the amount of students will get their degree in education. Besides many of the students at SMU do not pay for their education, either through scholarships or "parental scholarship"

[gostangs]

It is just fine with me if SMU turns out 25 (PE) education degrees a year that also happen to be football players.

[Dooby]

School of education??? Somehow I don't think it going to be too crowded. Let me say that we should be paying teachers a heck of a lot more than we currently do in this country. That being said, do you think there is going to be a lot of people taking on the burden of financing the price of SMU tuition when met with the prospect of a low paying teaching postion upon graduation?

There are lots of teachers with degrees from SMU. I graduated with a lot of people that went on to teach. People focus on the business school and engineering schools, but SMU is a liberal arts university. Something tells me the average history major isn't expecting to make a $100k/year straight out of school. My wife has a bachelors and masters from SMU; she'd have made more out of school if she had been a teacher. Do you think all those little sorority girls are taking finance? Pull your head out of your [deleted].

[Ponymon]

Page 5B of today's DMN says that SMU has hired Robert Blocker as a new provost and vice president of academic affairs. He comes from Yale University, where he was dean of the music school and a professor in music and management. Previously, Dr. Blocker was the founding dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA.