Letter to the Editor
As a proud Duke graduate and beginning professor, my impulse is to celebrate any victory Duke achieves over UNC, but alas, I found nothing but a bitter taste when I heard of NC State Senator Tom McInnis’ proposal to force eight course teaching loads on all UNC system professors. Unless given reason to do otherwise, I will take McInnis’ statement of motive at face value that his goal is to improve teaching quality by putting more students in contact with professors instead of teaching assistants. However, his proposal to micromanage the university by imposing higher teaching requirements will only serve to drain UNC of its research-active faculty and, ultimately, quality instruction in the classroom.