Posted on 06/14/2016 9:12:24 PM PDT by doug from upland
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A public university in Michigan has announced it’s deleting a requirement that all students complete at least one math course before graduating. At the same time, the school is seriously considering a new requirement that would compel students to complete four courses that promote diversity.
Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit is one of the largest schools in Michigan, with some 27,000 students. Until now, all of them had to either take one of three basic math classes to earn their degree, or else test out by performing sufficiently on a relevant SAT, CLEP, or AP test.
But going forward, students will not longer have to demonstrate any mathematical competency to graduate, unless their particular course of study requires it.
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It used to be that a college would never consider something so stupid. If they did, they would lose their accreditation.
Well, we’ll have a more diverse culture. Some who can figure out how much change they should receive back after buying lunch, and some who can’t.
On a practical note, if each of these universities had to hold their own student loan debt, and would only get paid back if their students actually got jobs, they’d be a lot more selective about what they teach.
When the smart phones and GPS crap out, we’ll see who really holds a 4.0 GPA won’t we?
I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. After all, in the near future ALL thinking will be done by your government masters thus relieving all “proles” for the labor of thought.
The principle is already in process in our K-12 grades of public schools and should ready the little zombies to be in full force to face the rigors of a higher education consisting of government “canned” thought as food for their preconditioned minds.
And NO business will take them seriously when they apply.
Works out great.
Is that a 4.0 GPA in political science, literature, social engineering or real engineering?
GPA only means something if it is in a field that actually produces a tangible product or service.
For generations minorities have been able to get into college just for being minorities, but now they are giving them college credit for it? I suggest we stop wasting time and money and just give all minorities a college diploma when they turn 18. They will be just as educated, but wont be subjected to all those white microaggessions.
Of course! Math teaches you to think logically. That’s the last thing libs want voters to be able to do.
Math Sucks — Jimmy Buffett
Everyone knows square roots, I’m only interested in round roots. So there. ;’)
BTW, thanks for the ping to this topic — I guess the humanities have been finished off long ago in higher ed; we already know that physics and science are of no importance, just indoctrination into the poisonous fiction of AGW; and now math is being discontinued? That’s what Common Core appears to be primarily there to do.
“I have settled on it as a shibboleth to determine the members of the mathematical tribe”
I hope you aren’t saying that if you don’t know trigonometry you don’t need to know algebra.
I look at it this way: without the ability to frame problems that can be solved algebraically, you are doomed to the lowest rungs of employment, with a high degree of certainty.
Kids do not understand what Wayne state is doing to them. In the short term, they think it’s great. (Party on, garth) In the long term, they are drone labor, for the most part.
Sad for kids for whom basic math will remain a mystery.
Any field that requires proficiency in mathematics. When the SHTF, the only engineers, scientists and mechanics who will be useful are those that can solve problems without an app that does it for them. That’s my point.
Thanks doug from upland. My first visit to Wayne State was during a museum trip in high school (my Greek lit teacher -- I doubt there is such a thing anymore -- organized a field trip to look at the antiquities. The campus was sprinkled throughout a neighborhood or two and some business districts, kinda weird. At least that's how it appeared to me. Really loved that museum in Detroit, too bad that wasn't all there was to the city at that time. The area around the museum has subsequently been greatly cleaned up, it doesn't look like the same area now. Or rather, it didn't during my more recent visit, which was probably ten years ago at this point.
Semi-agree. I had to take algebra for my degree and the course was advanced enough that even though i had "ate it up" in high school, along with high school Trig, being a bit rusty made some of it pretty difficult for me.
General math, with really basic algebra, should be a requirement, but many degrees have nothing that requires such - even engineers use tables for most of what they do unless they are in R&D. I really disagree with the "diversity" replacement though - they took something that dealt in immutable facts and replaced it with brainwashing....
Wayne State University is located in downtown Detroit. It caters to its surrounding population. Think, real hard, about the ethnographic mix of that population, then draw your own conclusion about why a mathematics requirement was eliminated. Detroit is exhibit A and ground zero for what lies ahead for this country if things remain unchanged.
Clearly need to diversify further.
For real! How much 'diversity' is acceptable? 50% white, 40%? How about 0%?
Math be HARD!
There are certainly many mathematical factoids I’ve forgotten in the years since I took calculus and trig. As a computer programmer I sirens far more time dealing with discrete math than continuous. But sin(PI/4) = 1/sqrt(2) isn’t one of them.
Agreed!
The old ‘math is racist’ mantra.
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