Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach.
Colleges and universities requiring faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in relevant professions, at first glance, is a good idea, but is one that may bring unintended negative consequences.
The goal of most students entering college is to receive an education that will allow them to be successful in the careers they choose to pursue after obtaining their degrees. Students rely on professors to impart on them the knowledge and skills that will be necessary in their future endeavors. Then, it would seem, university faculty working in the same professions that their students one day hope to work in would be beneficial to the students at these institutes of higher learning.
The world outside of academia consists primarily of for-profit institutions. If university faculty are required to work in these areas then conflicts of interests will inevitably arise, and these conflicts may result in students learning highly biased information. For instance, a geology professor not required to work in a relevant field can freely present evidence on climate change - both the weakness and strengths of the arguments. On the other hand, a geologist who must work outside academia may find work in oil and gas and their company may not like the professor teaching ideas that may lead to negative impacts on their bottom lines. The professor then must choose between giving a biased lecture or losing their jobs - after all the university requires them to maintain employment outside of academia, so losing their oil and gas job may result in them losing their position at the college as well.
Academia is unique in that money is not the sole motivating factor of progress. Academia allows progress to occur which may not otherwise occur because of this fact. Research that may not have a direct financial impact, but could be otherwise useful, is often cast aside for more financially-driven initiatives in worlds outside of academia. For example, in cancer research both treatment and early detection are important for patient survival; however, treatment is more profitable for major industries such as pharmaceutical companies whereas early detection does not directly impact industry profit as much. Early detection, then, often must be funded through non-profit mechanisms. Forcing faculty to work in industry could lead to these important topics being under-studies and hinder societal progression.
While it is true that students often have the goal of finding a good job after they finish their degrees, it is key that the faculty teaching students at universities and colleges are allowed to be free from the inherent biases that forcing them to work in relevant professions would likely cause.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 733, Rule ID: AFTERALL[1]
Message: Did you mean 'after all'?
Suggestion: after all
...a biased lecture or losing their jobs - afterall the university requires them to maintai...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, so, then, well, while, for example, for instance, such as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2295.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 435.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27586206897 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80966797731 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51724137931 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 714.6 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.1741461819 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 143.4375 119.503703932 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1875 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8125 5.70786347227 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.10249572725 0.218282227539 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.036774215587 0.0743258471296 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0236260122301 0.0701772020484 34% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0580965228307 0.128457276422 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0248598019619 0.0628817314937 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.64 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.4 8.32208582834 113% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 98.500998004 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.