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Prof: Academic rigor reinforces 'power and privilege'
Campus Reform ^ | December 11, 2017 | Toni Airaksinen

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: college; donnariley; indiana; purdueuniversity; smithcollege
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Rigor as in need to make sure the math is right or this bridge will collapse. Lack of rigor = let us build a 1/2 mile suspension bridge using African traditional methods.
1 posted on 12/11/2017 11:58:42 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Ah, intellectual achievement, and academic competency is racist.


2 posted on 12/11/2017 12:02:32 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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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.


3 posted on 12/11/2017 12:02:42 PM PST by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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To: C19fan

Johnny: “Teacher, 2 + 2 = 5”

Donna Riley: “Well done, Johnny. You are destroying that dirty white male heterosexual privilege. You get an A+.”


4 posted on 12/11/2017 12:02:42 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: C19fan

this kind of inanity is what Predue gets for hiring from Smith College


5 posted on 12/11/2017 12:02:48 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: John Semmens
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.”

Satirize THIS, Bucky!

6 posted on 12/11/2017 12:03:38 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Donna Riley, who previously taught engineering at Smith College for 13 years

Meaning: she taught dumbed-down, PC science to lesbian social-studies majors for 13 years.

7 posted on 12/11/2017 12:04:05 PM PST by PGR88
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“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.


8 posted on 12/11/2017 12:05:43 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: C19fan

Smith College has an engineering program? LOL!!!


9 posted on 12/11/2017 12:07:33 PM PST by Cowboy Bob
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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.


10 posted on 12/11/2017 12:09:21 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: C19fan

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.


11 posted on 12/11/2017 12:09:44 PM PST by Purdue77 (Okay, I'm too cheap to afford a tag line.)
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How about that dammed rigor of gravity?

Curse the white man, then jump off a building.


12 posted on 12/11/2017 12:10:46 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, Ipotherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: C19fan

They really do want to drive us back to the Stone Age, don’t they?


13 posted on 12/11/2017 12:11:17 PM PST by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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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.


14 posted on 12/11/2017 12:11:31 PM PST by BBQToadRibs
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To: Steely Tom

I’d seriously consider looking at studying overseas if I were in high school.


15 posted on 12/11/2017 12:11:46 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

Note to big bucks Purdue donors: The inmates are running your asylum.


16 posted on 12/11/2017 12:12:01 PM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Enchante

Time to ditch the bitch, Mitch.


17 posted on 12/11/2017 12:12:22 PM PST by technically right
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These people are dangerous lunatics. It does seem that "Engineering Education" is being treated as a distinct, politically correct b.s. academic specialty that may be a kind of politically correct academic ghetto. I sure hope that this nonsense has not been infiltrated into all the "real" engineering courses. This creature, Donna Riley, is an obvious clown:

Donna Riley, the "Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education" at Purdue
18 posted on 12/11/2017 12:12:45 PM PST by Enchante (Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
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Her comments are incredibly racist, as they are based upon the supposition that non-whites aren't competitive when it comes to academic rigor. That's really painting with a broad and prejudiced brush.
19 posted on 12/11/2017 12:13:53 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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My first thought also. Here is what passes for engineering at Smith (from their website)...
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.
20 posted on 12/11/2017 12:13:55 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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