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"A University of Georgia professor has adopted a “stress reduction policy” that will allow students to select their own grades if they “feel unduly stressed” by the ones they earned."
How will future employers vet these people if they have no idea whether or not the potential employee actually understands anything they studied?
How are these students that are so stressed out by their grade going to fair when they hit the rude awakening called real life?
I think there is definitely still a "point" to attending college. But there are some worrisome trends. In my opinion we shouldn't hide our heads or pretend there's nothing worth noting or being concerned about, but we also shouldn't give up hope and rashly declare there's no point anymore and it's just a cesspool.
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Originally Posted by NHDave
How are these students that are so stressed out by their grade going to fair when they hit the rude awakening called real life?
Unfortunately, my prediction is that the rude awakening will happen, over a period of decades, when real life is instead changed to suit the new people who will eventually subsume it.
I think there is definitely still a "point" to attending college. But there are some worrisome trends. In my opinion we shouldn't hide our heads or pretend there's nothing worth noting or being concerned about, but we also shouldn't give up hope and rashly declare there's no point anymore and it's just a cesspool.Unfortunately, my prediction is that the rude awakening will happen, over a period of decades, when real life is instead changed to suit the new people who will eventually subsume it.
Wichman claims that “engineering education” schools increasingly focus on concepts that are incompatible with the actual discipline, such as “empowering” students and “reimagining” engineering as a more “socially connected” field of study.
“For the record, engineers ‘empower’ themselves and, most important, other people, by inventing things,” he points out. “Those things are our agents of change.”
Witchman opined that social justice issues have “no place in a technical science-based education,” which he believes should function solely on the basis of merit and ability.
“The door to engineering is open to everyone, just as the floor of the basketball court is open to everyone, or applying to the [Navy] SEALS is open to everyone,” he argued.
There are 3060 faculty members at the University of Georgia.
There are 2474 four year colleges and universities in the United States.
I think one professor at one university isn't going to make colleges irrelevant.
If you've been paying attention, this college isn't the only place where this sort of thing is happening.
And let's not overlook the job market lowering standards to allow people to get jobs they currently aren't qualified for. But yeah, nothing to see here
If you've been paying attention, this college isn't the only place where this sort of thing is happening.
And let's not overlook the job market lowering standards to allow people to get jobs they currently aren't qualified for. But yeah, nothing to see here
Yes, nothing to see here. Go back to college and take a class on statistics - - you obviously missed that one.
In my opinion we shouldn't hide our heads or pretend there's nothing worth noting or being concerned about...
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Originally Posted by TristramShandy
I think one professor at one university isn't going to make colleges irrelevant.
It is not one person. No, college is not irrelevant or pointless. Far from it. But that is not the same as no worrisome trends existing or nothing to be concerned about or aware of.
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