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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: Strike
Message-ID: <89Mar13.230408est.38098@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 23:03:53 EST

[ warning: a somewhat bitter and overly general assessment of the 3 Canadian
  Universities I have attended, worked for, or taught at. ]

Asserting that a university is not responsible for large class sizes is
preposterous.

Even though funding is partially a function of enrolment, there comes a point
where either resources must be added or enrolment cut, else quality of
education will suffer.  But university administrators often get blinkered by
their budget, and too little attention is paid higher up to things like
teaching ability or adequacy of classrooms.  If you have a warm body at the
blackboard and a door number to put in the time table, all is fine, and the
more bodies on the chairs, the more money you get to feed a top-heavy
administration that sometimes forgets it was put in place to serve students,
teachers and researchers instead of perpetuating itself.

[ ouf. ]

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4