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The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point has proposed dropping 13 majors in the humanities and social sciences — including English, philosophy, history, sociology and Spanish — while adding programs with “clear career pathways” as a way to address declining enrollment and a multimillion-dollar deficit.
Здравый смысл в университете, поразительно по нынешним временам. Интересно, нет ли тут какой причинно-следственной связи с тем геноцидом, который тамошний губернатор Уокер устроил пару лет назад университетской публике.
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Date: 2018-03-21 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-21 09:51 pm (UTC)именно так. бесполезное образование лучше того которое они проведут как полезное.
been there, seen that.
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Date: 2018-03-22 02:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-22 02:17 am (UTC)in princeton, engineers were even freed form distribution requirements. one of D's family friends ( they had a "twins group" - was inmy class. AND in my club. she was shocked to realize we had not met. well, i was partying and playing volleyboll, she was studying.
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Date: 2018-03-22 02:26 am (UTC)these are not бесполезное образование. however there is plenty of english, anthropology, political science, women's studies, even european languages etc - that are basically useless in the sense that the graduates with an A.B. or B.A> or even B.S. are unemployable, since they have not acquired marketable skills.
i find it unwise to blame the university. the unis are commercial enterprises. they are not forcing anybody into their Theater major and Sociology minor. studnets are responsible for their choices - including bad ones, those who will land tehm in the market place without anything to claim other than ooo, i went to Yale.
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Date: 2018-03-22 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-22 03:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-22 04:26 pm (UTC)Ага, но людям тяжело воспринимать этот тезис. Им кажется, ну можно же по-преподавать что-то "полезное" вместо точно бесполезного...