North Carolina drops STEM departments, keeps politically correct ones

American Thinker ^ | 25 Feb, 2024 | Arnold Cusmariu

[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.

[MayflowerMadam]

In high school in NYS Regents program we HAD to take 3 years of a language (Latin, Spanish, or French), and 3 years of Math (algebra, geometry, and trig and/or calculus), and 3 years of Science (general, biology, and chemistry), and 3 years of History.

I hated it, but appreciated it for decades after.

[Sequoyah101]

Hate to say but I’ll bet it includes a lot from all persuasions.

[cymbeline]

“I hated it, but appreciated it for decades after.”

Today’s kids, the tiktok generation, do things for the present, not the future.

[bert]

Un mentioned is the fact that North Carolina State University is and always has been dedicated to engineering and sciences including math.

NC State is the very embodiment of stem

For 2022, the NC State enrollment was 26,254 and Chapel hill was 20,210