Toledo Free Press Letter to the editor from A&S student

This letter to the editor from an A&S student appeared in this week's Toledo Free Press dated 4/18/2008.

Defining education

The coverage regarding higher education in the area was very interesting. However, educator Lloyd Jacobs has a very limited and narrow definition of education.

As a history major at UT, I pay the same tuition rates as every other undergrad at UT. However, the College of Arts and Sciences is not very high on Jacobs' list, especially the history Department. Jacobs has an aversion to this type of education because they are not considered “hard sciences.”

The department's funding is getting cut, tenured professors are retiring without replacement in the history department, all the while without having a real chairperson over the department.

As a student paying the same rates as those taking engineering and other “hard science” majors, I demand and deserve proper attention to the history department or my tuition partially refunded. I am getting robbed by paying for a decent education which is actually turning into subpar garbage via one man's power-tripping biases.

TOM MORRISSEY, Junior, UT

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