Posted on 02/25/2024 6:09:41 AM PST by MtnClimber
The University of North Carolina system oversees 16 state universities.
Campus locations include Chapel Hill, Wilmington, Charlotte, Asheville, and Greensboro. UNC-Chapel Hill, originally called the University of North Carolina, was founded in 1789 and is one of the oldest public universities in the United States.
According to Wikipedia statistics, some 245,000 students attended UNC system universities in 2021.
One of the schools in the UNC system, UNC-Greensboro, is in the news these days because of a decision by Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. to cut undergraduate and/or graduate programs in physics, mathematics, computer science, anthropology and nursing, citing “university direction, enrollment patterns, prioritizing faculty time and expertise, and growth opportunities.”
Reaction to the decision to cancel STEM was swift.
Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Charles Bolton resigned in protest of the cuts and the way Gilliam handled communication.
Slated for elimination are undergraduate programs in
Geography (just Google everything, right?)
Anthropology (that’s about, you know, old stuff), and
Physics (Newton and Einstein are dead white males),
as well as graduate programs in:
Nursing (hospitals and doctors might disagree),
Geography (of course),
Mathematics (WaPo’s Travis Meier is applauding this one), and
Computational mathematics (calculators from Walmart will do the trick.)
What about programs in various “Studies” departments that liberals have insisted over the decades absolutely, positively belong in college, offering degrees that will enable graduates to get barista jobs at Starbucks, whose loans Joe Biden* plans to forgive? Nope, those are alive and well.
African-American and African Diaspora Studies (cutting them would lead to “mostly peaceful” Antifa/BLM demonstrations),
Media Studies (better to help Democrats win elections),
Communication Studies (“failure to communicate” caused problems in Cool Hand Luke),
Peace and Conflict Studies (to help Hamas, Hezbollah ... um, negotiate),
Liberal and Interdisciplinary Studies,
Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
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You can’t have effective globalism when certain countries are too prosperous and happy.
Globalism is everywhere is equally shit.
We’ll have 194 Brazils.
I’d like to see anyone with one of those silly degrees apply for a job at my brother’s engineering firm.
Basically, this tells potential employers who are looking to thrive as an organization that a diploma from this institution means the bearer has exceptionally limited usefulness and should be avoided.
Your brother’s engineering firm is targeted for destruction.
Companies are back to having to look at degree programs, curriculums, and grades to determine if a person has an actual education or a participation trophy.
Keep your toilet paper close and wipe as needed. Life goes
on and has since the world began. Things change, people
diversify, goals are always changing but life goes on for the
living until each of us die. Such as life in our three score
and ten. Have a good’en
No surprises here. Joe will just start shifting all our engineering work to China, as long as he gets his kick-back of course.
We won’t need math or engineering in the new socialist paradise.
The masses will be living in mud huts and eating bugs—electricity, fugggeddaboutit.
Get rid of that white stuff. It’s much too difficult for his people.
NC has decided to lead the nation in the construction of mud huts.
Looks like in the article that it’s only UNC-Greensboro. The title impliies it is more than that.
America has become a diverse, low-trust, genetically inferior society compared to decades past.
The Top 5 countries producing the most engineering graduates per year:
5. Iran: 233,695 graduates. According to Forbes, 70% of the graduates are alleged to be women, which would suggest that they have the most women engineer graduates in the world.
4. The United States: 237,800. InsiderMonkey.com claims that only one in every 20 students majors in engineering in the US of A.
3. Russia: 454,400 graduates.
2: India: 1 million graduates. They might have one of the largest numbers of graduates, however, a report called the Aspiring Minds National Employability Report 2015 (click to download pdf) which surveyed 150,000 engineering students from more than 650 engineering colleges found that 80% of the graduates were unemployable.
1: China: 1.3 million graduates. The huge number of graduates was estimated by UNESCO in 2013. Engineering and Technology Magazine says the statistic should be taken at face value because the number has been disputed.
Our “enemies”, Russia, China and Iran produce ten times the number of engineers that we do. Of course, we don’t need engineers to accomplish our current day goals, we need more college trained globohomos.
Get the government out of the student loan business and have colleges back the loan. They’ll have to make sure their students get worthwhile degrees since they will be on the hook to pay back the loan
Physics and mathematics are racist, so they have to go.
If there’s little demand for the classes, why offer them?
“If there’s little demand for the classes, why offer them?”
Um. I dunno. Maybe because some parents want their children to be smart? Just a guess.
Who needs science when you’ve got Leftist dogma?
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