LETTER: Diversity is important, but …

Editor,

I am commenting on the article titled “Our View: Students should take charge of learning.”

I recently took a class from a professor who has an extremely heavy accent. This barrier made it very hard for me to understand the material and for the teacher to explain it and I did pay attention.

Yes, we will come in contact with many people with accents in our careers, and I do appreciate that ethnic diversity. However, in this case we are paying for education we can’t understand. We should not have to learn to understand a heavy accent on top of learning other material. I think that if students pay to take a course in a classroom setting, then it is the university’s responsibility for making sure we get the best that we paid for (skills, accent, etc.)

Ruth Kikkert