Posted on 01/13/2020 4:48:07 PM PST by karpov
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In response to my Quillette article, a group of graduate students in the Allen School filed a grievance against me with their union. The university agreed to several of their demands, including that, “A group of (mostly senior) faculty will review the introductory programming courses to ensure that they are inclusive of students from all backgrounds.” A working group was formed and it produced a set of recommendations. These included:
A relaxation of grading on coding style.
Allowing students to work together in a group for part of their grade instead of requiring them to complete all graded work individually.
Training for TAs in inclusion and implicit bias.
Review of all course materials for inclusiveness. For instance, of a lecture that involves calculating body mass index (BMI) using guidelines from the National Institutes of Health, the report noted that it “seems insensitive to present students with a program that would print out that some of them are ‘obese’ while others are ‘normal.’”
A reduction in the amount of effort expended pursuing cheating cases by 50 percent even though there has been no reduction in cheating cases.
The report also recommends that courses incorporate inclusiveness best practices as outlined in an Allen School document. These include:
The addition of an indigenous land acknowledgement to the syllabus.
The use of gender-neutral names like Alex and Jun instead of Alice and Bob.
The use of names that reflect a variety of cultural backgrounds: Xin, Sergey, Naveena, Tuan, Esteban, Sasha. An avoidance of references that depend on cultural knowledge of sports, pop culture, theater, literature, or games.
The replacement of phrases like “you guys” with “folks” or “y’all.”
A declaration of instructors’ pronouns and a request for students’ pronoun preferences.
(Excerpt) Read more at quillette.com ...
Academic rigor ... adjusted to snowflake sensitivities.
Is this how civilizations end, by suicide?
Enough with the pronoun BS.
Note to American employers, the Indian Institute for Technology (IIT) has no such weaknesses or accommodations, and a pool of desperate millions to draw from. They will work under enormous pressure, for decreased wages, under the constant threat of losing their H1-B. Universities, please do try to compete with that.
Compilers don’t care about your feelings.
And American students wonder why Asians get a big chunk of the engineering jobs....
How disgusting. I hope he sends his resume to a better school.
Computer programs don't give a sh*t what's in your mind.
I spent a day and half once telling a computer what was in my mind, and the program still refused to run...
This is EXACTLY how we got the Boeing 737 MAX.
Apparently, (well, in fact) the University of Washington prioritizes PC diversity outcome over STEM preeminence.
Way to screw over the country Leftist jackwipes.
Coding style is very important. Code should be easy to follow and read. I speak from professional experience. NOT teaching the good coding style cheats the students.
This is amazing. You can't fake coding. Might be able to fake being scum master or even PM for a short time, but you can't fake coding.
Accumulate 2 or 3 short-hop code-shop changes before 25, and these kids are completely exposed to the next hire.
“Allowing students to work together in a group for part of their grade instead of requiring them to complete all graded work individually.”
Giving up your individuality for the collective.
Yeah! That will work! Just check out Ayn Rand!
The Left eating their own.
Who would hire such idiots? The students, not the professor.
The list is growing...
Were you running Eliza????
University of Washington Computer Science and ENGINEERING.
I can’t wait to ride on Boeing airplanes “engineered” according to these wokeness standards.
They are bad enough already.
Not to mention Boeing defence products.
Putin just laughs at this stuff.
Allowing students to work together in a group for part of their grade instead of requiring them to complete all graded work individually.
A reduction in the amount of effort expended pursuing cheating cases by 50 percent even though there has been no reduction in cheating cases.
Great, anybody with a computer science & engineering degree from University of Washington is now unemployable. I think I'd file a counter-grievance over that if I was a student there.
The whole thing is so stupid. These people are nothing but a bunch of losers worrying about too many things other than school. I say disenroll them. If I was going to school in Turkey, I don’t think they’d be sympathetic to my complaints about the large number of people with names like Sri and Farouk.
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