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From: eugene@ames-pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: University Education and Industry Needs
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Date: 29 Jan 88 07:33:35 GMT
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Sue Raul makes some interesting points about the nature of Universities
and Industry.  I would also suggest looking at the structure of European
(old world) versus American (new world) Universities.  Many people
(us) grew up with parents who did not go to college.  They believed they
we would be sent to college to graduate and `instantly' get a job.  They
did not attend, so they didn't really know or understand.  That is where
some of this fallacy arises.

Many older European universities are set up with single Professor (note
cap P) departments with a bunch of Assoc. and Assistants, etc.  This
would be far from practical in some American schools with numerous
full profs.  We have taken a more democratic approach.  One friend (a
new PhD at the time) was really impressed the way he was treated while
touring Europe, then he had the big let down coming back to the US.
He was `Herr Doktor Professor Kerr' there and just plain Bob here.

No, universities were not set up to feed industry in the past, the
question is should we change this, and I think the answer is "we already
are."  P.S. Technology (engineering) is solving the problem, science is
undertanding the question.

Eugene