"Diversity".
Posted on 02/21/2015 9:00:30 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Barnard College, the all-women college affiliated with Columbia University, is considering slashing its foreign-language and science requirements while requiring students to complete a new requirement on “diversity,” the Columbia Spectator reported Friday.
Barnard is conducting an ongoing review of its core curriculum, which is expected to be fully implemented for the 2016-17 school year.
Just what would qualify for fulfilling the diversity requirement is unclear, although the Spectator said it would be “focused on local, global, and social issues.” It would also replace the more limited Cultures in Comparison requirement.
While diversity is on the ascent, hard sciences and foreign languages may be on their way out. The school is considering eliminating a required semester of lab science, as well as slashing its foreign language requirement from four semesters to two. During hearings last fall, several students had complained that taking mid-level classes to fulfill the language requirement was “too hard.” Others complained that the school’s core curriculum was too culturally restrictive.
Claire Bouchard, a Barnard senior, said the proposed requirement would allow students to escape an exclusively “Western” worldview.
“They’re iterating this call for a need to have a more critical perspective of what they’re looking at, and being given the tools to engage in conversation that may not necessarily fall in line with what a lot of the Western world would like to think, and at least be given the ability to don different lenses and to don different points of views,” Bouchard told the Spectator.
At least some students are fired up about this new direction.
“I’m really, really excited about the global and diversity directions that this is taking,” said sophomore Rebekah Dempsey. “Learning how to think and talk about things that are outside of our comfort zones, and being forced to do that by a liberal arts college, is really important to creating powerful women leaders.”
Cut any and all federal funding.
Will Barnard celebrate diversity by admitting transgendered women? To truly explore diversity you can’t just admit women who were born female. You are bigoted if you don’t also allow for “women”,who though born male, identify as female. These are the liberal criteria nowadays.
"Diversity".
I agree with their dropping the science lab. Seriously, it was a waste. They should replace it with a home economics class.
The dumbing down continues.
Great, throw out observational science and teach faerie tales instead. College is supposed to be hard.
What does a degree in diversity qualify you to do?
Who accredits this so-called center of higher learning?
Barnyard college ....where ugly left wing bulldykes go to relax.
Leave your brain at the Admissions Office. We’ll wash it and return it to you.
If you think the world is mad now, just wait a generation — at the rate things are going. The Witch Hunters haven’t even lit their torches yet.
Good idea. Women aren’t all that good with math and science anyway. /s
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Bob, as long as it's gluten-free and does not have any GMO content, I can agree with you*. The Barnard Bow-Wows ought to also consider a personal hygiene and grooming class.
* Chicken ala King is also out, OK? Black people won't eat it and neither will I.
“I’m really, really excited about the global and diversity directions that this is taking,” said sophomore Rebekah Dempsey. “Learning how to think and talk about things that..., and being forced to do that by a liberal arts college, is really important...”
And "educated" adult is EXCITED about being FORCED to think and talk in a certain way.
She will, of course, vote to make sure that we are all similarly forced, as she happily was, for her entire adulthood.
This will help the students succeed academically, and fail later in life.
Go into government and make a fool of yourself.
This level of Academentia Syndrome is why the Founders deliberately did not allow women to vote.
The governong powers at Barnard must all be blondes, drugged out of their microcephalic minds, too.
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