And yet they continue to go deep into debt in exchange for indoctrination and no real skills.
Posted on 11/15/2019 7:40:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Two Ivy League universities have announced that many graduate programs will no longer require the traditional standardized Graduate Records Examination testing requirements for applications, citing reasons pertaining to "diversity" and concerns that such tests are "biased" against minority and low-income students.
Both Princeton University and Brown University recently announced that they are moving away from standardized testing requirements for graduate admission in the name of creating a more diverse student body.
Princeton announced its decision to do away with the standardized test for 14 different graduate programs in September, calling the Graduate Records Examination (GRE) biased against minority groups.
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Princeton Graduate School associate dean for access, diversity, and inclusion Renita Miller cited a need for "intellectual diversity" within graduate programs, as well as the importance of "demographic diversity." She insists that doing away with the requirement will help Princeton to achieve its goal "to identify, attract and develop the most promising individuals from as many segments of society as possible."
“Universities like Princeton have done a good job at expanding and diversifying their undergraduate populations,” Miller added. “If we want to make similar strides on the graduate level, we must find new ways to recruit and enroll graduate students who may be the first in their families to attend college, and from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds.”
The assertion is that one way to do this is to do away with standardized testing, because, as Princeton director of graduate studies for classics Johannes Haubold puts it, "there is concern that standardized tests are culturally biased in favor of certain groups; and that they end up testing primarily how good one is at taking tests." Haubold also brought up resource concerns, noting that some students can afford coaching for standardized tests while others cannot.
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Brown University announced a similar initiative earlier in October, eliminating GRE requirements for 24 doctoral programs. The university reasoned that doing so would "attract a wider pool of applicants" and "reduce barriers that discourage some students from groups historically underrepresented in higher education and from low-income backgrounds from applying for admission."
Brown Graduate School Dean Andrew G. Campbell insisted that “by removing the Graduate School’s GRE requirement and allowing programs to decide whether to require the exam, we will broaden the talent pool of students who apply to and have access to graduate education at Brown.”
Both universities' new policies will go into effect for applications for programs starting in fall 2020. Among programs with modified requirements are both universities’ neuroscience programs, as well as Princeton's molecular biology graduate program and Brown's biomedical engineering and biotechnology programs.
The moves by Princeton and Brown to drop GRE requirements for some graduate programs comes just months after another Ivy League school, Cornell University, dropped the same requirement from its biomedical engineering program over concerns that such requirements "can be biased against" women, minorities.
Congratulations Academia, DIVERSITY HAS COME TO MEAN STUPIDITY.
And it is all due to your manipulation.
Who carez if some brijges fall down?
You know why there aren’t any dwarves in the NBA? Rulers are culturally biased.
When the tests continually show you something, you should pay attention to what the tests are saying. When it’s every type of test, over and over again, saying that some people perform poorly, it’s time to admit what the tests are telling you.
I believe that when the quality of our graduate schools noticeably decline, less foreign students will end up coming here if they have access to more academically oriented universities elsewhere. There are cultures that actually want their youth to learn something. Our culture used to expect excellence. Now colleges are just a way to use taxpayer money to reward liberals and create more of them.
I be your heart surgeon.
I was in college 30 years ago, and one whole building was dedicated to “remedial classes”. The students were all black & Hispanic high school graduates, and they didn’t have the minimum HS requirements for college - so they were taking high school classes at college. As I understood it, many dropped out; they weren’t getting any college credits for a year or more.
Whites and Asians lacking those classes from high school were outright rejected by the college.
Yeah, cause knowing things is for white peoples.
And yet they continue to go deep into debt in exchange for indoctrination and no real skills.
Note to companies: Hire graduates of these universities at your own risk. (Remember, if a person can’t meet the most basic qualifications to get what they want, its racism and the system that is broken.......)
all hale equal dumbness
GEORGE: I'm sure we're all aware of the flaws and biases of standardized tests..
WYCK: These aren't standardized tests - these are his grades.
“there is concern that standardized tests are culturally biased in favor of certain groups”
There is apparently no concern that lowering standards will call into question the qualifications of every student who is accepted into graduate school. Every student will now be stigmatized by this feel-good, idiotic move.
More dumbing down........here come the ignorant, incompetent doctors...yippee
What happens is that the industry-specific standardized tests (for licensing/certification) tend to end the charade. A “preferred minority” co-worker has a child who completed law school but can’t pass the bar exam despite repeated attempts; a fried describes the same with a token engineering co-worker. They go nowhere, and simply fill token slots - but the government will point to the uneven outcomes as “discrimination”.
Employers would need the same protection for these employees that they would need for released convicts; the largest obstacle to hiring either category is the liability of something catastrophic happening as a result of employing them (a doctor botching a procedure or a convict killing a co-worker or customer). Who pays the legal bills? It should be the government coercing the employers to take on the risky employees.
cited a need for “intellectual diversity” .....
Translation: We have noticed that mostly smart people go to our school, we need to change that, WE NEED MORE STUPID PEOPLE, NOW!!!
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