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4. "Credit hour dispute" means "money dispute"

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 10:34 AM

Sep 2012

Four credit hour classes require you to pay more for professors without getting as much more in tuition, so boards don't like them but faculty do.

As they say, academic politics are so bloody because the stakes are so low...

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