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Professor warns: “Social justice warriors” are destroying engineering
Bogus Times ^ | 8/4/17 | Kim Parkhurst

Posted on 08/04/2017 10:12:38 PM PDT by BogusTimes

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To: BwanaNdege

Great contributions just stand out naturally, they dont need to be uncovered.

Why do libs thrive on so many multi-syllable words?


61 posted on 08/05/2017 8:56:37 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Stosh

She got credit for one thing and one thing only. She referenced Foucault. That is the most important citation for these people. She would have won the SJW Nobel Prize/Fields Medal if she could have worked in Derrida as well.


62 posted on 08/05/2017 8:57:06 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: Stosh

I hated thermo as a student but loved it as an engineer though I still disliked non-linear graph interpolation!

Somewhere during my 40 years of practice I began to wonder why professors made things so complicated and dry?

Much of any course of study is the language of terms used. In my industrial training I always provided a dictionary of terms and a good part of the first day in lay terms illustrations telling the students just to listen and that their “aha” moment might come later. Of course, to my great disappointment and personal failing understanding never came to some.


63 posted on 08/05/2017 9:14:50 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: super7man

I experienced this as well and would not compromise my evaluations and gave frank exit interviews. I went from being the only district where interns were sent to being the district where they never sent an intern again.


64 posted on 08/05/2017 9:19:49 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Sounds like Prairieview.


65 posted on 08/05/2017 9:22:10 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Sequoyah101

Howard.


66 posted on 08/05/2017 9:23:45 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Similar.

From time to time I would take an observation day in one of our cubicle farms by finding an empty desk to work at when visiting for some meeting. One day I listened to one of our brightest young supervisors try several times to coach one of our diversity hires through a pretty simple assignment. He was so patient, kind and unsuccessful. 7pm came, most had left, he was still at his desk doing what he did not get done that day because he was coaching. I made, printed and gave him a gold star certificate as I left about 8 that evening. Some things you cant change.


67 posted on 08/05/2017 9:34:33 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Sequoyah101
Why do libs thrive on so many multi-syllable words?

Obfuscation is the obscuring of the intended meaning of communication by making the message difficult to understand, usually with confusing and ambiguous language. The obfuscation might be either unintentional or intentional (although intent usually is connoted), and is accomplished with circumlocution (talking around the subject), the use of jargon (technical language of a profession), and the use of an argot (ingroup language) of limited communicative value to outsiders

68 posted on 08/05/2017 9:54:38 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: The_Media_never_lie; Telepathic Intruder
Most of the SJWs are from the lower, less rigorous and intellectual rungs of academia: Journalism, political science, sociology, philosophy etc., as are their students. The would love to invade and conquer engineering, sciences and math, and make it more inclusive.

There are exceptions.

I knew two such majors (philosophy, anthropology) who didn't end up as SJWs but applied themselves in the working world. The philosophy major became a software test engineer and the anthropology major became a mainframe computer programmer.

69 posted on 08/05/2017 10:28:11 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: kearnyirish2

A good reason why there should be no unions allowed in any taxpayer-supported positions.


70 posted on 08/05/2017 12:05:31 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: exit82
I entered a Chemical Engineering program in 1965. At orientation, we were told to look to our left, then look to our right. We were informed that only one of us would still be there the next year. That was about right.

It was a small city college when I started, but turned state later. It was very rigorous. There were times when the highest grade any of us got on an engineering exam was in the 40’s.

I am very proud to say I graduated and with honors. I was the first woman to graduate in very many years. It makes me sad to think that we may now be awarding engineering degrees as if they were participation trophies.

71 posted on 08/05/2017 3:23:55 PM PDT by BoomerBabe
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To: BoomerBabe

Good for you, BB. You were a real pioneer. In ‘65, it was still a very male dominated field.

In ‘72, we had maybe three women in my freshman class.

One of them became a four star general in the Air Force in charge of logistics, after heading up a missile program. Great career for her.


72 posted on 08/05/2017 5:38:47 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: oldtech

Definitely; those unions have made NJ unlivable. I can’t believe the number of “for sale” signs in my area - and every one lowers the value of my home...


73 posted on 08/06/2017 2:20:57 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: shibumi

LOL!


74 posted on 08/12/2017 9:59:49 AM PDT by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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