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The University of Akron has put its foot down against a professor who planned to raise the grades of female students so they would stay in his field of information sciences.
After The College Fix quoted an email to students from Liping Liu, an administrator told The Fix that the business and management professor’s gender-based approach was “unacceptable” and that no grades have been artificially raised.
Liu admitted to The Fix that his plan could be “questionable,” but said he wanted to “test the water” to see if this approach could “attract female students into future classes” and help correct chronic gender imbalances in his field.
How in the world is this beneficial to anyone? All students are cheated by an uneven playing field. Future employers are cheated because they can't accurately assess potential hires. And the public is cheated when an unqualified person, who you believe to be in that position on merit, performs a service for you.
How in the world is this beneficial to anyone? All students are cheated by an uneven playing field. Future employers are cheated because they can't accurately assess potential hires. And the public is cheated when an unqualified person, who you believe to be in that position on merit, performs a service for you.
this ties in beautifully with the 'identity politics harming science' thread.
Didn't some other school lower the STEM standards last year for the same reason?
I think we've seen this play before and it didn't end well.
Thankfully the University put a stop to it before he put the policy in motion.
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He referred to Facebook’s “Annual Leadership Day for female employees around the world” and to Google’s training program for “women to establish links with men in coding.” Liu said he was also following a plan of action by Microsoft to close the gap between men and women in STEM and IT fields.
He's just following the the SJW playbook at those companies.
I believe Saltine was right: burn it down and start over.
this ties in beautifully with the 'identity politics harming science' thread.
I know.
I'm too damn old to learn how to do everything on my own. Pretty soon you won't be able to go to a doctor, a barber, a mechanic, a chimney sweeper, etc. without it being someone who got coddled through the process of mastering their craft.
Well, I guess I'm going to have to start now. Anyone want to volunteer for a brain surgery? I'll start there and need the practice.
Seriously though, they have been lowering standards for 50 years. They raise fees and taxes but rarely standards. Auto and safety standards are the exception to that and they get lowered at times.
Last edited by phma; 05-16-2018 at 09:47 PM..
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