Business students attending MTSU are under prepared and malnourished in their attempt to obtain the aptitudes necessary to grow and be successful outside this university. At this very moment our graduates are attempting to find their place in an uncertain future, entering a workforce that might not need nor want them. As technological advances continue to connect humanities interdependent activities, competition from home and abroad has made intellectual superiority a means for success in our evolving societies. The College of Business has failed and failed, time and time again to turn its students greatest capabilities into future assets. Unbridled power is given to this university to act as a portal to a successful future or unemployed fiery hell. It has become absurdly apparent that something must change if MTSU has any chance of contributing positively to a society it claims to care so much about.
“The university should be a place where an individuals creativity meets problems in which it delights”, said Ralph Waldo Emerson. But in the College of Business expression and creativity are only found in the doodles stretched across the outlays of notebook paper in between thin notes lacking connection. This university is more like a state owned corporation, more involved with budget cuts and financial solvency than it is with preparing its patrons for the world outside the educational system. “Many students ambitions and creative ideas are crushed by conformity,” said one MTSU student. “Mandatory classes that are needed to graduate but spark no interest in a student's ambitions are a waste of time and money to the student.” The creative mind is forced to shut off when over populated classrooms are being taught by professors going threw outdated motions, teaching from the same syllabuses and using the same examples that have worked in the past. This is in no way beneficial to students.
This system is severely flawed. MTSU is in a race for supremacy and prestige. Competition with universities big and small throughout the state and the country are pushing schools to meet higher collegiate standards, while the faculty is continuing the same song and dance, it's a two step for poor educational standards. Are these standards existential or are they based on a leaky and unbalanced foundation? While the board of administrators is giving their full attention to building new and bigger buildings on campus, the curriculum being taught in the classrooms is circumventing a system of lethargy that is leaving students blind and immobile as they look for their value in the work force.
Students at this university empty their pockets and their family's bank account to attend a school where they expect to be challenged and pushed to their fullest academic potential but end up leaving with a rotten education unless they are coerced to graduate school where I do not know if things get much better.
Teachers are bored and lazy with what they themselves are saying. Two tests a year, a half assed group project, and bam, nice knowing you. Students who push themselves on the individual level are capable of almost anything, but do the students who attend class regularly and want nothing more than a good grade, do they deserved to be in debt to a system that uses their money for mere vanity projects? This university squanders vital assets while its patrons trudge along in misery. Cows and cowards you are for not pushing every student who walks through these doors toward their highest potential.
If I sit in another classroom and hear the answer to the infamous question, “Why are you in college?”, and the resounding answer “ to get a good job,” is uttered. I am going to strangle myself from the highest point of wasteful spending on campus. A good education can not be an after thought of obtaining a good job. How are students expected to succeed with a report card of adequate grades while their mind is a mush stew of Scantron answers and forgotten information.
Our potential is limitless but your curriculum and narrow minded course load necessary to graduate is choking the life out of us. Your apparent disregard for anything resembling an honest and true well rounded education is horrific and should be brought to the attention of a national collegiate ranking board. Which I am currently in the process of doing?
Some teachers at Middle Tennessee State University are monuments to what a good teaching can be, as well, there are some that are not. It is up to you to tell the difference.
