It is more important for universities to invest in infrastructure and physical plant than to invest in keeping the faculty satisfied
I believe that it is far more important to invest in infrastructure and physical plant. While there are likely people who will instantly oppose my opinion and claim that the satisfaction of the faculty ultimately trumps whatever benefit infrastructure investment might have, I would like to claim that infrastructure investment is, indeed, a strategic method to keep the faculty satisfied.
Why do people choose to dedicate themselves to academia and spend a large portion (and perhaps all) of their lives on campus? Because they like to broaden the horizons of whatever field they have devoted themselves so passionately to during their years as students. The faculty's main goal is to help people learn what they have learned the hard way and to have a real-world impact on situations surrounding them by conducting and/or supervising ground-breaking research in their successive fields of interest. Thus, influence is perhaps the common denominator that brings the whole faculty together.
But how does infrastructure relate to what is the seemingly ultimate aim of any faculty, i.e. influence, and what does it have to do with faculty satisfaction? Well, that is a complicated question. In tackling this question, I would like to address the physical plant of any facility and how it affects the residents -- or users -- of that facility. As a person with future plans of devoting herself to academia and who is extremely finicky in design, I personally cannot fathom the thought of spending my entire life working in a place that does not satisfy my needs of appropriate aesthetics, let alone basic needs that arise when little is spent on infrastructure and design. Insufficient attention to detail in infrastructure can have possibly unforgivable consequences, and those consequences are likely to be instantly recognized and addressed by the faculty.
One such consequence is the possibility of the university facilities falling apart due to natural disasters. The unquestioned fact that no one wants to feel unsafe at their workplace is evident, and I am quite sure that no faculty member would agree to work in a place that could risk their lives. Thus, infrastructure is a key factor in keeping the faculty around and satisfied. Another consequence, although less evident, is that appropriate design and infrastructure have been proven by numerous studies to have a tangible impact on the way the members of the faculty teach and the way the students learn. What we see and how we feel at any certain time and in any certain place directly affects how we communicate our ideas and how we absorb new information. Feeling safe and aesthetically pleased in any place brings more attention to our surroundings and enables us to work more efficiently. Although this might not seem like a direct factor in the satisfaction of the faculty, it immensely affects the way the faculty members perceive their workplaces and their satisfaction.
In conclusion, I believe that attention to and investing in infrastructure, design, and physical plant automatically, though indirectly, guarantees faculty satisfaction by bringing a feeling of safety and aesthetic pleasure to their workplace and also by positively influencing the way their students learn as proven by the studies.
- TPO 16- Q2 77
- TPO 41 - integrated writing 80
- Do you agree or disagree with the followingstatement?Universities should give the same amount of money to their students's sports activities as they give to their university libraries. 70
- TPO45 - integrated writing task 68
- TPO 43 Independent Writing Task Imagine that you are in a classroom or a meeting The teacher or the meeting leader says something incorrect In your opinion which of the following is the best thing to do Interrupt and correct the mistake right away Wait un 78
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, thus, well, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 13.8261648746 210% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 43.0788530466 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 52.1666666667 136% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.0752688172 211% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2762.0 1977.66487455 140% => OK
No of words: 524.0 407.700716846 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.27099236641 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7844588288 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14095138758 2.67179642975 118% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 212.727598566 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501908396947 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 872.1 618.680645161 141% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 81.4202190955 48.9658058833 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.368421053 100.406767564 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5789473684 20.6045352989 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.68421052632 5.45110844103 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232192033493 0.236089414692 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0788004576489 0.076458572812 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111881402171 0.0737576698707 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148559092825 0.150856017488 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126544385171 0.0645574589148 196% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 11.7677419355 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 58.1214874552 61% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 10.1575268817 148% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 10.9000537634 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 86.8835125448 155% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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