Read the article. It’s interesting.
I know ... it’s the comPost. Still ...
Looks like the new President wanted to identify early in their freshman year those students who were highly unlikely to succeed, and urge them to drop out sooner rather than later. Some faculty objected and were sacked.
Based on the article, I’m inclined to side with the new President ... but it’s not really my problem.
“Based on the article, I’m inclined to side with the new President ... but it’s not really my problem.”
I tend to but two things:
1. His language, if reported correctly, is a little OTT for a college president.
2. How much of this was to weed out students before they got into the federal database.
No way, he goes to a Catholic college and wants to lessen the impact of religion and make it all about profits.
The new president seems to think MSM is an MBA class case study. Alas he is about to find out he is wrong:
1. He better have an air tight good reason to fire a tenured professor otherwise he will have shot a hole in his budget.
2. Even if he has an air tight cause, the lack of due process is likely to harm the president’s cause.
3. The president sadly is reacting to the way the federal government collects data rather than any academic or educational problem.
I suspect the president will be gone soon.
I did read the article. It was very light on details. There seems to be more to the story.
“Looks like the new President wanted to identify early in their freshman year those students who were highly unlikely to succeed, and urge them to drop out sooner rather than later. Some faculty objected and were sacked.”
It is possible that such (unlikely to succeed) students may have been disproportionately black, making it politically more difficult to fix the process before such students were admitted.
Better would be to identify the "highly unlikely to succeed" at application time, and not accept them. But that would likely bring down the wrath of the EEOC.
My brother, with a Master’s degree in Education, says Universities had irrelevant courses the first two years designed to weed out those who are most likely to fail.
But then, that was forty years ago.
“”but it’s not really my problem.””
Or as a friend puts such things - “Not my circus. Not my monkey.”