there are many reasons or possible reasons ... consider some of the following
1. standards for what constitutes quality work in graduate school have declined over the decades 2. pressure (explicit or implicit) to make graduate school easier and "more user friendly" has increased over the years (as we focus on making higher education more accessible) 3. having more students and more graduates FASTER looks good for programs (especially DEANS of colleges) 4. mechanisms for monitoring student progress and what faculty/programs insist students do have declined over the years 5. graduate programs have increasingly catered to students who want to come back to school but, have less and less time to do so 6. faculty committees, for whatever reasons, have increasingly allowed students to get more and more assistance with their projects (for design, analysis, writing, editing, etc.) 7. and finally, as institutions pressure faculty more and more to bring in money and produce "income" for the school and make the school look good, there is less in the reward structures and, less desire on the part of faculty .... to spend more time WITH students (it is not in the faculty member's best P and T interests) anyone want to add to the list? At 12:12 PM 3/21/02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Just a quick two-cents worth. > >Why is it that we often see this type of request for help? How is it that a >student can get this far without receiviving proper help from his/her >dissertation committe and/or from the statistics department of the school? > >I can't believe that a school can let a student simply go out and collect >data without the student fully knowing what specific analysis is to be >applied and for what reason. > >Any comments or am I old-fashioned? > >GOD BLESS AMERICA > >Dr. Robert C. Knodt >4949 Samish Way, #31 >Bellingham, WA 98226 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >"If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame." >. >. >================================================================= >Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the >problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: >. http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . >================================================================= Dennis Roberts, 208 Cedar Bldg., University Park PA 16802 <Emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm AC 8148632401 . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
