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FWST: TCU coaches, AD reduce salaries amid coronavirus pandemic
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<blockquote data-quote="TxFrog1999" data-source="post: 2866798" data-attributes="member: 322"><p>A good portion of those that teach in higher ed have never once held a job in the private sector within their field. All of their "study, time, investment and effort" has been towards earning a piece of paper that validates their time spent with their noses in books or writing papers. Not to say that learning at a high level shouldn't be lauded--or required for certain professions, but when it comes to the practical application of what they're teaching, all of their degrees and theoretical knowledge means very little. A good example is in my field of graphic design. </p><p></p><p>Students who go to a 4 year university to learn graphic design simply learn theory, while their professors expect the student to figure out the technical aspects of taking a theorized design and bringing it to life in a program like Illustrator or Photoshop on their own. Students that go though our 2 year program learn the technical skills in building designs and comps but are rarely taught the theory. When these two students meet in the job market all we ever hear from employers is how they'd rather employ our students than someone from UTA, University of North Texas or TCU. Our students have the practical knowledge and can be taught the theory, but the other students come out of a 4 year program thinking they know it all but can't make the simplest of designs in the programs required to succeed in the field. This is one of the biggest problems with higher ed today, teachers that have a lot of knowledge but were never required to apply that knowledge to better prepare students for the job... unless the job is to teach.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TxFrog1999, post: 2866798, member: 322"] A good portion of those that teach in higher ed have never once held a job in the private sector within their field. All of their "study, time, investment and effort" has been towards earning a piece of paper that validates their time spent with their noses in books or writing papers. Not to say that learning at a high level shouldn't be lauded--or required for certain professions, but when it comes to the practical application of what they're teaching, all of their degrees and theoretical knowledge means very little. A good example is in my field of graphic design. Students who go to a 4 year university to learn graphic design simply learn theory, while their professors expect the student to figure out the technical aspects of taking a theorized design and bringing it to life in a program like Illustrator or Photoshop on their own. Students that go though our 2 year program learn the technical skills in building designs and comps but are rarely taught the theory. When these two students meet in the job market all we ever hear from employers is how they'd rather employ our students than someone from UTA, University of North Texas or TCU. Our students have the practical knowledge and can be taught the theory, but the other students come out of a 4 year program thinking they know it all but can't make the simplest of designs in the programs required to succeed in the field. This is one of the biggest problems with higher ed today, teachers that have a lot of knowledge but were never required to apply that knowledge to better prepare students for the job... unless the job is to teach. [/QUOTE]
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