Crap like this is precisely why I would never live in the north!
Great, now UWIS grades will be worth about as much as an Obamadork speech.
Of course, in most of the libarts joke majors, ‘twon’t make any diff...we’re talking Obama level idiocy there.
I’m waiting to see how they pull it off in real subjects - like math and physics.
A simple differential equation or EM question or two will easily separate the liberals from the real scientists...but I fully expect that questioning a grad will soon be banned.
I think they should take the same approach with their football and basketball teams. Bo Ryan wouldn’t care if he had to play a 5’ 11” Hispanic guy w/ a 22% shooting percentage who can’t play defense. Surely Gary Anderson would be happy to start a black QB who can’t read the playbook or hit an open receiver if his life depended on it.
Oh wait...that would hurt revenue wouldn’t it?
Why not just give a diploma to every minority and/or a member of a special class when they sign up?
Isn’t Marxism wonderful?
I looked and looked for the “satire” tag on this article. Please tell me it was just inadvertently left off.
I wonder if the engineers and software developers now training in China and India are also benefitting from “Grade Diversity”?
Tell the full tenured professors that this will be approved as soon as they agree to share their salaries with the lowest teaching assistant and that all instructors at Wisconsin will get the same pay and benefits: And it is be from averaging all levels of pay and benefits will all getting the average, and NO more.
It’s been this way a Harvard for the last 30 years
it’s called grading on the curve
Be sure to check the diploma hanging on your Doctor’s wall.
How about equity in the distribution of effort.
I guess that would be way to much to ask.
I would transfer out of that school.
Today.
One way to deal with the stupidity of the Third World demographic-lower standards!
"Grade Distribution" used to be a great way to explain taxation and income and wealth distribution to kids who've never had a job. Sports examples work well, too.
Usually, they know how hard it can be to EARN a good grade, especially in a difficult subject, and they usually are also familiar with slackers and with getting poor grades from not doing the work.
Unless they are a natural born slacker, the idea of taking their hard earned As and distributing them to the rest of the class so that everyone else gets a B usually makes them unhappy.
It's good to learn this lesson early. Our world would look much better now if more had.
Oh well...maybe a future generation will benefit from our example: From landing on the moon to crazier than a loon in less than half a lifetime! How fast and how hard the once mighty fall.
This is a misleading title. The university wants to have minorities be able to get the same grades as majorities (and Asians). I posted this on the first thread on this topic last night:
The response from the university is here:
http://www.news.wisc.edu/23011
(excerpt) “The report is intended to help members of the campus community contribute to making UW-Madison more equitable, inclusive, and diverse, both on campus and to the broader community. Contrary to Hansen’s claims, our framework absolutely does not extend to how instructors should or could grade students.”
The actual report is just the kind of liberal, feel-good BS about providing more support for minorities who might not be able to handle college education.
found here: http://diversityframework.wisc.edu/documents/FrameworkforDiversityMay192014_2.pdf
Related headline:
UW-Madison policy calls on professors to distribute grades based on race
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3183359/posts
Great! I would expect the Badgers to lobby for an equitable distribution of touchdowns when the season starts.
Coupling the "mission of diversity" with the concept of a "core organizing principle," is an excellent example of totally confused thinking. For a detailed discussion of how the Left uses the pursuit of diversity to undermine both actual diversity & the social cohesion of diverse elements of our societies, see Putting "Diversity" Into Context.
Suggesting some form of grade cheapening, of course, is a further insult to those deemed to be needed to secure that idiotic "mission."
William Flax
I wonder what happens if you are one black genius, in a class of average white students. Does the black genius get a C?
This is a version of the equality of opportunity doctrine.This doctrine appears to represent justice only on the basis of a thoroughly confused view of the nature of opportunities and the causes of human success.
In any given instance,an opportunity is the result of a combination of external circumstances and the skills and abilities an individual possess,such that he is able to exploit the circumstances to his advantage. An opportunity is a product in the sense that the skill and abilities an individual possesses are the result of his successful exploitation of previous lesser opportunities.
Opportunities are never a matter merely of external circumstances that are served up on a plate, as it were by some "distributor", such as a professor or teacher. They always depend on what the individual himself brings to the external circumstance in the of skills and abilities.These skills and abilities are in turn the cumulative product of what the individual has done with his life to that point.