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Issue50: In order to improve the quality ofinstruction at the college and university level, all faculty should be requiredto spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to thecourses they teach.

Is it a good suggestion that all facultyare supposed to work in the field correlated to the courses they teach? As faras I am concerned, I contend that those professors whose academic areas such ashumanity need not to participate in working outside, while field work is anecessity for most scientific course instructors in that it provides them witha host of advantages. In the following paragraphs, I will first present a fewbenefits of working outside and then I will offer some reasons to explain why itis unnecessary for certain other experts.

To begin with, with the rapid developmentof science and technology, it is becoming more and more difficult for teachersespecially scientific illuminators to have a thorough and comprehend knowledgeof the up-to-date information emerged in areas they study. As a result, takingpart in some work outside the academic world serves to compensate their lack ofdirect access to the industrial world. For example, the scientific study andresearch of computer science would eventually be utilized to serve thepragmatic use in the society. Imagine a programming guru who is indulged in themost convoluted mathematic problems all day, how can he get an idea of what isactually required by the industry? It is entirely possible that his work issignificant but of little value to put into practical applications. Incontrast, a young professor who is engaged in some field work in a financialcompany may come up with an effective but easily developed software whichenables the organization to operate more smoothly and safely.

Secondly, the valuable time of workingoutside the academic world makes the participants aware of the current jobmarket outside and which specific branch experts is most required in the area.Consequently they can offer superior suggestions to their students about theirfuture career. For instance, my major is computer science, and my softwareengineering instructor who has inspected a lot of international companies andacademic institutions told me that database manager is a hot spot in thecurrent industry. Although I am interested in both database and softwareengineering, now I consider database as my first option in graduate collegesince database manager has a better opportunity to ensure me a high paid joband bright future career advancement.

Superior as participating in workingoutside the academic for many professors is, the claim that the nature ofcertain fields makes it unnecessary or even impossible for relevant professorsto work outside is by no means negligible. Can you think up what a religionresearcher could occupy anything except being an expert in that area in thesociety? No! This is because their specific area is pure theoretical, it ismeaningless to compel them to gain the experience in the work. The samesituation applies for literature historians, politics historians and so on.

To sum up, given the discussion I mentionedabove, which sometimes may entangle together and form an integral whole andthus become more convincing and persuasive, we can safely reach the conclusionthat aside from those areas where practical work is not available orinfeasible, majority faculty should and even must spend some quality time towork in order to gain the benefits I have just presented.