Mercy, is it really that bad? I thought it was awful enough when I questioned a couple of recent history majors who graduated from the local university and found that they didn’t know the history I learned in grade school but electrical engineers who don’t know Ohm’s law? They never heard of a front to back ratio? I went to the Navy class “A” school in electronics on Treasure Island long ago and we were told that the school was basically a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering squeezed into 38 weeks of full time study without any courses other than electronics. Now you tell me that there are people with EE degrees who don’t know as much about electricity as I was taught in a high school science class. This is truly mind boggling.
“Now you tell me that there are people with EE degrees who don’t know as much about electricity as I was taught in a high school science class.”
This appears to be an issue only with graduates from our “historically black” college. It has merged with the historically white college of engineering and the two are producing their graduates separately. The politics is unbelievable. Imagine the duplicated budgets. Also, the two schools hire professors separately. You either work for one or the other. “Name” professors don’t want to be employed by the HBC.
It turns out that if you don’t graduate black students that you’re prejudiced (or some such.) But if you hold the HBC students to the same standards they drop out. They come to college ill prepared and can’t keep up without grade inflation. A prof told me, he didn’t dare grade his black students the same as the others because he’d be accused of racism. Rather than face the raging in-your-face racism charges professors float the ill prepared and under-performing black students until they graduate; sometimes with “honors.” I really can’t blame them because nobody wants to take on the race baiting local newspaper and TV stations. Nobody is prepared to go in and call it like they see it as the backlash might involve demonstrations featuring the likes of Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, et. al. and university professors are not fighters or crusaders.
The non-black students that coming out of the other side’s administrative system are really quite well prepared and ready to go.