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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
I think this chick sees rigor as ‘stiffness’, IOW she has some sort of phallic envy.
Purdue grads need to write a letter to Mitch Daniels.
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. “
I think I know what that meant ... I should probably see a psychiatrist.
Incredibly bigoted, demeaning and dismissive attitude towards POC's, females and the sexually diverse.
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.
How in heck does data benefit one’s race or gender?
"... at the Smith College School of Social Engineering."
“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.
That's not very nice.
True, “Galloping Gertie”, the infamous, disastrously collapsed Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge was a great triumph of “non-rigorous” engineering. May we have many more.
Of course when the bridge collapses, the Democrats will just blame it on Republican Budget Cuts.
“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
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.
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.
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.
Oh, Riley? What is her engineering knowledge and expertise? She seems more suited for Womyn’s Studies.
They and their curriculum just took one heck of a hit.
I’d say, potential engineers, be wary.
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. :-)
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.
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