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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

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To: C19fan

I think this chick sees rigor as ‘stiffness’, IOW she has some sort of phallic envy.


61 posted on 12/11/2017 12:57:32 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: technically right

Purdue grads need to write a letter to Mitch Daniels.


62 posted on 12/11/2017 12:57:56 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being rich or stupid!)
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To: Enchante

I would have thought the same, but, “Riley earned a B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Engineering and Public Policy. “


63 posted on 12/11/2017 12:58:22 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: ichabod1

I think I know what that meant ... I should probably see a psychiatrist.


64 posted on 12/11/2017 1:01:27 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: neverevergiveup
"...academic rigor is a 'dirty deed' that upholds 'white male heterosexual privilege.'"

Incredibly bigoted, demeaning and dismissive attitude towards POC's, females and the sexually diverse.

65 posted on 12/11/2017 1:02:50 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire)
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To: C19fan

Here’s a REAL issue, not make believe garbage spewed out of all feminist pie holes.
In 87/88 School year, only 41% of HS level teacher were male.
By 2015 this had dropped to 30% male.

In that same time period the USA went from one of the top countries for education to clocking in at
TWENTY EIGHTH IN THE WORLD.
Let that sink in...

Perhaps this stupid bitch who wants to whine about made up problems could explain a real one - why more woman teachers seems to correlate to poorer performing students.


66 posted on 12/11/2017 1:05:14 PM PST by No_More_Harkin
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To: C19fan

How in heck does data benefit one’s race or gender?


67 posted on 12/11/2017 1:06:36 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: C19fan
"...who previously taught engineering at Smith College..."

"... at the Smith College School of Social Engineering."

68 posted on 12/11/2017 1:09:44 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: Tenacious 1

“My question is how did she get there to begin with?”

To an unhealthy extent, modern higher education is all about demographics. And way too often (from the standpoint of pinhead administrators) the demographics are all too wrong, especially (dare I say it) in the more rigorous disciplines: too many of this flavor of human beings, and not enough of that flavor.

One way around that problem in the engineering world is to introduce a department of “engineering education”, by its very nature a “soft” (dare I say “flaccid”?) discipline - in that way you can involve all manner of folks in something with the word “engineering” in its name, without requiring any real mastery in nasty stuff like calculus and thermodynamics.


69 posted on 12/11/2017 1:14:53 PM PST by Stosh
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To: C19fan
In other words, the white kids and the Asian kids are supposed to slack off on their studies so the the black kids can keep up? Why would they want to do that, is it because they think the black kids are inferior students?

That's not very nice.

70 posted on 12/11/2017 1:16:05 PM PST by Kenton
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To: C19fan

True, “Galloping Gertie”, the infamous, disastrously collapsed Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge was a great triumph of “non-rigorous” engineering. May we have many more.


71 posted on 12/11/2017 1:20:28 PM PST by libstripper
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Of course when the bridge collapses, the Democrats will just blame it on Republican Budget Cuts.


72 posted on 12/11/2017 1:22:10 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

“Riley is the author of two books, Engineering and Social Justice and Engineering Thermodynamics and 21st Century Energy Problems...”

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/People/profile?resource_id=171338


73 posted on 12/11/2017 1:23:15 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Purdue77

She obviously believes,in gender self-identification. I suggest she carry it one step farther into species self-identification. The ideal would be for her to self-identify as an eagle, climb to the top of the Washington Monument, screech like an eagle, flap her new “wings”, jump off,and try to fly safely to the ground.


74 posted on 12/11/2017 1:26:52 PM PST by libstripper
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To: C19fan

After watching the Left strive to destroy other pursuits where men particularly excel, like the military and pro football, I suppose it should be no surprise to see them go after campus Engineering departments.


75 posted on 12/11/2017 1:29:42 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: Tenacious 1

When Mitch was governor of Indiana he was pretty much a no nonsense kinda guy. I’m surprised that he’s even allowed such a thing as a course in “Engineering Education” My guess is that a lot of alums are don’t see the humor in this.


76 posted on 12/11/2017 1:33:01 PM PST by technically right
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To: C19fan

Oh, Riley? What is her engineering knowledge and expertise? She seems more suited for Womyn’s Studies.


77 posted on 12/11/2017 1:41:18 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Tenacious 1

They and their curriculum just took one heck of a hit.

I’d say, potential engineers, be wary.


78 posted on 12/11/2017 1:41:54 PM PST by onedoug
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To: NorthMountain

Latinx and misogynoir are my two new vocabulary words for the day so I’m trying to use them three times so they’ll be mine. :-)


79 posted on 12/11/2017 1:44:46 PM PST by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: libstripper

It’s really all very simple. Screw rigor. You take your funding, hire it out to the general contractor with the lowest bid. You pocket the difference you saved by low balling. The bridge gets built. If it collapses, you shoot the general. Same with the military. Same with your health.


80 posted on 12/11/2017 1:47:28 PM PST by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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