Posted on 06/30/2016 6:53:08 AM PDT by MichCapCon
Why an American college degree is worth nothing.
Math enforces non tolerance logic such as:
1+1=2. (No deviation)
And it gets worse. All the way to multiplication and subtraction and division, and negative numbers.
They might like imaginary numbers, though.
Square roots????
But without math how will they determine the percentage of minorities?
‘Diversity’ = A Very Important Course!
‘Diversity 101’ = “Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace”! “They Want to Blow You Up”!
That’s not Rational.:-(
That’s why people with university degrees can’t measure their rooms for flooring and can’t keep a checkbook register. Pathetic.
Depends on the institution. A degree from Hillsdale College, for example, is very worthy.
The story is confusingly written.
I have no problem with dropping a math class and including a quantitative reasoning class that explains to students how to read and interpret graphs and statistics and how to tell when somebody is spinning the numbers. This is in essence a critical thinking course and an anti-dote to “political correctness”.
I have a huge problem with adding a diversity course which will amount to a course that teaches “political correctness” and non-critical thinking!
One final note, if you need a basic course in math you should not be at a 4-year institution.
Silly students. They mistakenly think they are doing themselves a big favor. While this may lead to a higher GPA, employers will rightly recognize a degree from WSU has being less valuable than toilet paper.
I'd take that.
Ashley Thorne, the executive director of the National Association of Scholars, which promotes liberal arts education and academic freedom, was critical of the recommendations.
Colleges and universities use general education requirements to ensure that students learn the subjects it deems most important, Thorne said in an email. Wayne State Universitys decision to drop math and add diversity to its requirements reveals that its leaders do not have their priorities straight.
Mathematical ability is an objective and practical skill that will serve students the rest of their lives, which is why it has traditionally been a core part of college curricula. Diversity is not an academic subject. It is a concept invented to classify people by their social identities, she said. Focusing on individuals race, ethnicity, sex, and sexuality in this way has been demonstrated to lead to racial animus, segregation, stigmas, discrimination, and poor academic performance. It also politicizes education.
I am shocked they actually included this cogent criticism in the article.
The local of the ‘university’ might help explain this decision. (From Wikipedia)
Wayne State University is an American public research university located in Detroit, Michigan, in the city’s Midtown Cultural Center Historic District and Wayne State University Buildings Historic District.
Given Detroit’s well-known problems with basic budget math, WSU is simply following local trends.
The destruction of our Universities to satisfy the inept and bungled is starting. Hopefully, people will be forced to face the fact that the diverse elements in our society are generally stupid and lack impulse control. Either face it or watch the destruction of our once great Colleges and Universities.
People wonder why America lags behind most of the developed world in mathematics and the hard sciences. Here we have the answer.
Pretty soon a company can’t ask what college/university they graduated from since it might hurt their self esteem and embarrass them divulging where they went.
En mathématiques, la transformation de Laplace est une transformation intégrale, c’est-à-dire une opération associant à une fonction (à valeur dans R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} \mathbb {R} ^{n} ou dans C n {\displaystyle \mathbb {C} ^{n}} \C^n) une nouvelle fonction dite transformée de Laplace de , notée traditionnellement F, via une intégrale.
Remarque : on note traditionnellement t le paramètre générique de (formant ainsi(t)), tandis que l’on note plutôt p celui de sa transformée F (on écrit donc F(p)).
La transformation de Laplace est injective et par calcul (ou par usage de tables) il est possible d’inverser la transformation. Le grand avantage de la transformation de Laplace est que la plupart des opérations courantes sur la fonction originale (t), telle que la dérivation, ou une translation sur la variable t, ont une traduction (plus) simple sur la transformée F(p). Ainsi :
Diverse and stupid.
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