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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
+1,000
Science and Math are racist, don’cha know.
Send your kid to trades school where they will learn a marketable skill, graduate in less time and daddy still has money in his wallet.
Remember those private college diploma mills excoriated by the press a few years back. Well, these guys have taken it to the next level. Rather than having courses in STEM which require someone to actually be able to logically think, we get rid of them. The result is we have a ton of applicants who are interested in getting a degree preparing them for nothing. The aim is to employ a bunch of useless dolts called professors and administrators at outrageous salaries while charging students huge amounts which the Bidumb will support by cancelling their loans because they cannot not pay. Meanwhile the dodos who get their worthless diplomas can ride out a decade or two on the backs of their parents waiting for them to croak so they can live off their estates.
Thanks.
We saw much the same thing at West Virginia University last year: Shifting student demands.
West Virginia had BOTH a falling enrollment AND shifting demands. UNC CHarlotte’s enrollment has been stead at about 30,000 since 2020, following years of rapid increase.
The mid-tier public universities are having a difficult time recruiting enough students for physics to justify offering the physics major. In mathematics, the major may survive, but grad programs are difficult to justify.
One way to look at this is that American college students aren’t up to the demands of these very rigorous programs.
The other way to look at this is that increasingly American college students are looking for a more well-rounded education, one that enables them to better deal with a fast-changing world.
Just who I want to design a bridge, a Women’s Studies graduate who can’t solve an integral equation.
IBTZ on account of your last sentence: non-Barista employment for graduates in these majors, except as grievance facilitators, Iis nil.
Looks like all those libs fleeing the cesspools of the north have brought their sh*t to NC - sad.
Leading to more unemployed graduates with worthless degrees, low or no reasoning skills and big debts. That should make NC complete.
UNC-Greensboro’s Undergraduate Nursing program is regarded by many as the best in the state, beating out UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke.
Graduate programs in Nursing are giving way to Physician Assistant programs because PAs are paid about $175K after a 3 year degree. MSN’s (generally Nurse Practitioners) take about 2 years to complete and make about $80-90K in NC. PhD’s in Nursing are an enigma except for the university teaching track requirement. (note: most MSN and PA programs require 1.5-2 years of patient contact before applying, such as being a clinical or floor RN)
(my wife has her MSN from UNC-Chapel Hill and agrees with the above).
It sounds like a satellite campus is being downgraded to an affiliate community college.
So the Research Triangle is now the Woke Broke.
North Carolina colleges going stupid, devolving into Wokedom.
“Slated for elimination are undergraduate programs in
Geography”
They probably better hope this trend doesn’t spread to Chapel Hill: Michael Jordan was a geography major (and actually got his degree in it, if I’m not mistaken).
“Looks like in the article that it’s only UNC-Greensboro. The title impliies it is more than that.”
Looking at the demographics, almost half white and half black and hispanic, POC
13+K female and 6+K male
Looks like the demographics are the determination for the changes.
Hire no one from the North Carolina University System ...
I guess the Lord’s of the UNC system don’t want those minorities to have opportunity for a STEM education.
AKA democRATs.
“Maybe because some parents want their children to be smart?”
Actually, why couldn’t a university have individual classes in the technical subjects. No need to have a “department” to do that.
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