The STEM Crisis Is a Myth – IEEE Spectrum. “As long as people continue to believe that a STEM “degree” is a STEM “education”, they will continue to believe that the STEM “education” shortage is a myth. Just consider that today’s average engineering student is required to study about half the time that they were […]
Archives for December 2014
Recovery at Last? Writes Paul Krugman. I Worry “Not For All”
December 8, 2014 by
Here is a link and my comments. Recovery at Last? – NYTimes.com. “…Many young Americans graduated into a labor market that didn’t want their skills, and will never get back onto the career tracks they should have had…” [quoted from Krugman’s Op-Ed] The fact is true. The implication is false. The reason so many will […]
String of Sexual Assault Cases May Lead to Tipping Point – NYTimes.com
December 4, 2014 by
This is my comment on String of Sexual Assault Cases May Lead to Tipping Point – NYTimes.com. I can only speak from my university experience. (I’m a former math prof.) I have little hope for change, other than what the marketing/admissions department deems necessary. (For example, that seems to be what happened at Harvard. See […]
Nice Essay: “If Students Have Time to Get Drunk, Colleges Aren’t Doing Their Job”
December 4, 2014 by
If Students Have Time to Get Drunk, Colleges Aren’t Doing Their Job – Special Reports – The Chronicle of Higher Education. I agree that if colleges weren’t businesses with the goal of making “customers” happy, people would get a lot more out of college, and have a lot less time in college to get into […]
Colleges Clamp Down on Bloated Student Schedules – WSJ
My comment: (See the link to the article below.) I doubt that this was a problem when students had to study to get a decent grade; and, more to the point, had to take required courses that gave them a general background. In 1963, when I was a freshman at Carnegie-Mellon, I had to take […]