Posted on 12/11/2017 11:58:42 AM PST by C19fan
The leader of Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education recently declared that academic “rigor” reinforces “white male heterosexual privilege.”
Donna Riley, who previously taught engineering at Smith College for 13 years, published an article in the most recent issue of the journal Engineering Education, arguing that academic rigor is a “dirty deed” that upholds “white male heterosexual privilege.”
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Ah, intellectual achievement, and academic competency is racist.
I cannot believe this clown is any kind of engineer. She may be allowed to “teach” her b.s. from a perch in engineering schools, but she knows nothing serious about engineering, mathematics, physics, or science and technology, period.
She is simply a mushy propagandist.
Johnny: “Teacher, 2 + 2 = 5”
Donna Riley: “Well done, Johnny. You are destroying that dirty white male heterosexual privilege. You get an A+.”
this kind of inanity is what Predue gets for hiring from Smith College
Satirize THIS, Bucky!
Meaning: she taught dumbed-down, PC science to lesbian social-studies majors for 13 years.
“let us build a 1/2 mile suspension bridge using African traditional methods. “
Somebody should simply ask her if she wants to descend in a research submarine which has been built with “alternative ways of knowing”, or, if she is willing to fly on a passenger aircraft built to the same non-standards.
Smith College has an engineering program? LOL!!!
So we should have non-rigorous universities that can’t compete with Asian countries but lots of diverse low-achieving students can come there and hang out, hook up, and be given participation trophys for attending.
And lots of tenured (unfireable) faculty members who don’t do any rigorous scholarship, but get paid handsome salaries for doing 10 or 20 hours of work per week, mostly consisting of teaching “classes” in which they spend 45 minutes virtue signaling in in front of diverse students, and making themselves available for office hours and faculty meetings where they listen to students and colleagues emote about how unfair and stupid the world outside the university is.
And the federal government pays for it with student loans that eventually get forgiven and dumped on the taxpayers because the entire proposition is economically unsustainable.
But that shouldn’t matter, because they are searching for something more important than money.
Since she was the one to posit this crap then it is her responsibility to prove that her method is superior to the current method. She should do this before it is foisted upon others. The tried and true method of teaching engineers has been successful for generations and it can be proven that lack of rigor leads to catastrophic events.
How about that dammed rigor of gravity?
Curse the white man, then jump off a building.
They really do want to drive us back to the Stone Age, don’t they?
Sheesh.
“Let’s just eyeball the load bearing strength needed for this skyscraper and call it good. I opted out of math because it supports white male privilege.”
Yea. That’ll go over well.
I’d seriously consider looking at studying overseas if I were in high school.
Note to big bucks Purdue donors: The inmates are running your asylum.
Time to ditch the bitch, Mitch.
The Picker faculty has developed an engineering program that responds to the challenges facing engineering education. Fundamental to the program is its setting in a liberal-arts environment in which students learn to contextualize engineering in the framework of bigger societal questions and to think in different ways as they collaborate on interdisciplinary teams.I think they mean "Social Engineering" not actual engineering.
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