Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach.

Essay topics

I disagree with the statement as it is presented. I think that it may be usefull for certain faculty members to work in proffessions relevant to the course but this does not have be usefull for each faculty member and as such compelling all of faculty to do so could rather be harmfull then helpfull for the quality of the teaching.

In general it may be usefull for somebody who e.g. teaches civil engineering to work some time in the industry so that he gets insights on latest technology, the state of the industry, the job market and in a broader sense 'how things work in the industry'. Passing this insights to the students may be very helpfull to them as they would also learn alot about everything around the proffession that they are learning, not only the academic knowledge. Further, the quality of the teaching could be improved as the teachers could tailor their courses to current, up to date industry needs. As such the students from the given school would have a more competitive standing on the job market when graduating.

However, there may be many cases in which working in the proffession outside the academic world would not be beneficial. Consider a mathematics teacher. Mathemetics is a highly theoretical academic field. For a math teacher it may be more appropriate to use the time that would otherwise be spend on working in the industry to read papers, to visit conferences, to visit other proffessors form other universities to see how they organise their teaching etc. and not working in some proffession that a math student may be working in after graduating.

The general point here is, that going into a proffession for a university teacher may or may not be appropriate given his specific circumstances. As such it would not be appropriate to compell each faculty memeber to do so. They should deceide on their own which activities to pursue outside teaching that may benefit their students.

For the university it would be more wise to use the HR strategy that many big sillicon valley firms such as Google or Facebook adpot. On the one hand they should hire very compent people. If they hire people who really love what they do they will try to improve their teaching or more generally whatever their function is from their own inner impulses. At Google for instance, employees have one day in the week off in order to persue whatever they want. Usually the people do not use this time for leisure but work on their own ideas how to improve current products or invent new ones. On the other hand they should offer encouragements and benefits for them if they enage in some additional activies outside teaching. For instance a university could simply offer an exchange programm for their faculty members in cooperation with some large firms that allows people from faculty to work temporarly for one of the partner firms without having this tedious application process that applicants usually face. Rather then forcing people this would be a soft encouragement and anybody who feels that this is not the appropriate thing to do would enage in another activity they could otherwise not pursue because they would be compelled to do something they feel is unnessary.

Therefore the purposed policy would be rather harmfull for the overall quality of the teaching.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, e.g., however, if, may, really, so, then, therefore, for instance, i think, in general, such as, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 28.0 12.4196629213 225% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2746.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 563.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87744227353 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64505662732 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.440497335702 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 856.8 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.2313412666 60.3974514979 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.391304348 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4782608696 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4347826087 5.21951772744 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222492027401 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.06754120703 0.0831039109588 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0461602458161 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115221842978 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0567599980344 0.0667264976115 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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