College Teaching

Thank you, David Glidden (Opinion, March 22), for putting in black and white one of the most salient failures in higher education today. I am currently attending an Ivy League institution that is plagued by the same teaching apathy as the UC schools. There, one course taught per year is admirable and, believe me, the price is very real. I would have completed my graduate studies one year earlier had the faculty with whom I worked been more dedicated and responsive to the educational goals of a diligent student.

I am a frustrated student, soon to be a product of such a system and who has chosen not to enter academics for one very specific reason. I do not wish to be forced into inheriting the traits of a faculty member who neglects to remember her vocation and sole responsibility--teaching.

ALEXANDRA MARIE IRWIN, Santa Monica