Excellent. I hope more universities do this. Pretty soon, their prestige will decline to where it really ought to be.
Soon a Harvard diploma will be unacceptable as toilet paper.
William Buckley put it like this, He had more confidence in picking 20 names at random from a phone book than in the Harvard faculty.
The Ivy League should be called the Slacker League.
Be still my heart. I was sure when I read that thread title it meant Harvard was going to start supporting the USA. Silly me.
Harvard lowered its standards a long time ago.
One could understand the Harvard Law school faculty and student body advancing a Barak Obama to presidency of the Harvard Law Review and carrying them through that experience and no doubt through his courses, but are they turning out doctors this way too?
One could understand the Harvard Law school faculty and student body advancing a Barak Obama to presidency of the Harvard Law Review and carrying them through that experience and no doubt through his courses, but are they turning out doctors this way too?
And every student will get a participation trophy! Don’t worry Mom, little Johnny will still get a trophy, even if he spends his entire college career attached to a beer bong.
A liberal school comes out as a play camp for overprivileged youth and trust babies.
I do hiring for my company and I’ve known for a long time that the ones coming out of Ivy League schools these days are entitled snooty morons, and the ones from state colleges or trade schools have a ton of drive and smarts.
So much for an Ivy League education. This will raise the graduation rate for all those affirmative action students at Harvard.
When your student body consists of the lazy, stupid, spoiled children of the ruling class (with a token amount of minorities thrown in the mix) you can’t expect them to actually perform can you?
It reminds me of the way European royalty bred itself into moronic, homely, shells of human beings (see Prince Charles) because they refuse to mix with the commoners.
An Ivy League diploma certifies that you are an idiot.
Why can a writing assignment not be given as a final? Seems to be a pretty good way to see if they have mastered the material beyond just memorization.
Harvard students.....will come out without the ability at living life to it’s fullest...HA...how dumb
Harvard students will no longer take final examinations. In fact, if a Harvard professor wants to give a final to a specific class, that prof actually has to notify the university he or she will be giving a final exam!In fact, why not just mail out the transcripts a suitable interval after enrollment, and save on payroll? Thanks ATOMIC_PUNK.
IOW, in ten years, you may as well wipe your a$$ with a Harvard diploma.
They’ll be shoveling out Baracks and Moochelles by the wheel barrel.
Thomas Sowell wrote a great indictment of what’s wrong with higher education in one of his recent books (sorry, I forget offhand which one it was...). He ~really~ tore into the “Ivy league” and other sorts of prestigious schools, even including his very own Stanford in the indictment.
Basically, according to Sowell, these schools are trading entirely on reputation and have for many years been delivering a low quality product. He said that there are “lesser” state schools, private colleges, and even online colleges that actually deliver a far better education. He specifically called out Phoenix University as being perhaps one of the best colleges in the country, even though it is almost entirely online.
I'd say their standards went to the dogs somewhere between the time Bush graduated and Obama entered.