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| Dupe entry: University Corruption |
| 2018-09-26 |
| I'm thankful that increasing attention is being paid to the dire state of higher education in our country. Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has just published "The Diversity Delusion." Its subtitle captures much of the book's content: "How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture." Part of the gender pandering at our universities is seen in the effort to satisfy the diversity-obsessed National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, each of which gives millions of dollars of grant money to universities. If universities don't make an effort to diversify their science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) programs, they risk losing millions in grant money. A UCLA scientist says, "All across the country the big question now in STEM is: how can we promote more women and minorities by 'changing' (i.e., lowering) the requirements we had previously set for graduate level study?" Mac Donald says, "Mathematical problem-solving is being deemphasized in favor of more qualitative group projects; the pace of undergraduate physics education is being slowed down so that no one gets left behind." Except for people who actually, you know, have talent for this sort of thing |
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| #2 Oooops https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2018/09/26/university-corruption-n2522002 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-26 10:28 |
| #1 Link? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-09-26 09:51 |