This is some of what is taught today:
Posted on 06/27/2020 6:12:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Every cloud has its silver lining.
The only thing of concern to me is, where will future doctors, dentists, scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, chemists, linguists, veterinarians, etc. get their training?
Get all the best in their fields together under one website and call it Bill and Ted’s Excellent University.
What’s goin at Texas A&M?
What’s going on at Texas A&M?
Hahaha . It will be somewhat entertaining to watch loser LIB lunatic professors trying to find other work. LOL . More popcorn ! !?
1. Problems in real life are all an open book test with unlimited time.
2. When I went to engineering school (MIT), back in the 60s, all of our tests and exams were open book, open notes, open anything you wanted. The questions were designed to make you think rather than recite memorized facts that would soon be forgotten. In general, if you had to look up how to solve a problem you were not going to get that one right.
The universities with STEM programs will survive. But, these programs attract primarily White Males. This will cause problems for the academic elites, as they try to force women and minorities into these programs.
I know someone, a liberal,who went back to school late in life, got a master’s in social work. Actually worked in the field for about 5 months, if that, and returned to not working. Lots of time and money wasted.
My opinion from 50+ years of various job requirements: Learn math up to two years of algebra and learn to read and write coherently: you can accomplish anything you set out to do. I tell this to nieces and nephews of various ages and their kids. I’m only 68 but have seen / done lots of different things, mostly technical in nature.
Retired earning a six-figure income with a GED, a willingness to learn new stuff, and insane curiosity. Same pay scale as the folks with papers.
Off Topic: Nice thing about age: I can sit down with the nieces / nephews and we can *all* have a beer while trading stories.
This is some of what is taught today:
Maybe try bringing the costs to the students down to 1950’s levels, considering most education is virtual and on-line already.
Bye-bye Marxist professors. You cut your own throats.
Why do I feel no sorrow or disappointment at this news?
My son got his masters degree from Florida Atlantic University. He said his professors were so liberal it would make him ill.
Were he to voice his conservative beliefs they would have failed him in a minute.
Colleges going broke? Good deal.
SJW’s want to remove statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross with support of quarterback and other team members. Absence of leadership in effectively dealing with the controversy and alums talking about “not one dime more.” Go to Texags politics and general boards.
I hate being put into a position of defending Yale’s law school but that could be more of a function of Hellary’s laziness & sense of entitlement. Not necessarily an indictment of the quality of the law school.
I think the number of the “big schools” that make money from their football program is from a handful to like ten. I remember reading an article on it a few years ago and we shocked how small the number is.
Yes good news, but unfortunately the academic elites will not let this feeding trough go empty. I predict it won’t be long until young adults are forced to attend and pay for these indoctrination camps. They are just figuring out how to pull it off, or “sell it”.
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They have already, it is called licenseing and credentialing.
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MEDICAL STUDENTS at several universities do not receive grades, and in those schools it’s almost impossible to fail, so it isn’t just online learning that has this problem. The solution, IMHO, is exit testing. There need to be specific tests (NOT government based) that determine whether or not you’ve mastered the material - whether form online learning or a bricks and mortar university.
To put this into a relevant perspective, consider the Bar Exam as a test of whether or not your law education has made you competent as an attorney. Hillary, after graduating from one of the ridiculously and pathetically overacted law schools (Yale in this intstance) failed the Washington DC bar exam. People from much ‘lesser’ law schools, per pedigree, passed the exam that year. What does that tell you about the US higher education system? Think about it.
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credentialing and licensing occurs already in most fields and those agencies are the ones who require the college and grad school tickets.
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