Within my COMP 250 course there are four audiences involved in the learning experience.
What Do We Value Within Our Learning Experience?
-ADMINISTRATION:
- Statistics-How many students they can enroll and whether they
How much $$$$$ can we make before they graduate??? pass or fail.
- Money -How much money they can make off a student in the time they are enrolled at school.
Administrations across the country are valuing SCHOLAR’S educations by the numbers. This does not show what each and every scholar takes away from their education. Not every person is the same some scholars value sports some value friends and their job but one thing is for sure a letter grade in canvas should not be everything received from a college education. For example in class Jordan Benton a one time Division 1 athlete shared with the class how when he was an athlete he was steered in the direction of easier classes in order to pass them and boost the athletic departments GPA and graduation rates. What does an athlete learn from this? Very few college athletes these days make it to the professional level of their sport, how will these athletes make it in the world when they are being funneled into standard majors and minimal work and effort classes? In reality their athletic scholarship is worth nothing if they do not learn something in school along the way.
-SCHOLARS:
- School>Grades>Graduation
- Sports>Assignments>Work
- Fun>Friends>Family
- Religion>Trips>Sleep
As scholars we value many different things. When we leave for college we are told to make the most of the four years we get during our undergrad because nothing ill ever compare to being young and in college. So how can the administration only value our learning experiences Quantitatively. Unless they try to factor in some of the outside learning there will always be a conflict between the Students and the Administration.
-PROGRAM AREAS:
- Engagement in the material
- Make a connection within your own discipline
- Make a claim, defend it with evidence and qualify your claim with a rebuttal

The values of a program area are very specific yet broad at the same time. It is outlined what knowledge needs to be obtained but there are very few guide line of how that should be done. This would align with students very well, however the administration wants everything to be done in a standard procedure type of way this is where the program area struggles because it does not have enough pull to override the administration.
-PROFESSOR:

Each professor is different, this is what makes college so exciting to be at. When each class is different and the professors all teach a different style it can be fun to go to class. However as Bill said in class on Friday around 80% of professors in the US are non tenured contingent professors. This means that these professors have no pull they are restricted by the administration and can be fired at any time. How can a professor satisfy the Administration and the Scholars when each are so far apart in their values?
-SOLUTION:
How as scholars, professors, administration, and departments can we come together and find even ground so that everyone is gaining what is needed to complete their obligations?