Thin skinned college students

[Plane]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/for-thin-skinned-college-students-we-have-nobody-to-blame-but-ourselves/ar-BBnpuYc?li=BBnb7Kz

   Too true to be funny.

[kimba1]

Im a civil servant union member and sometimes during job training sessions my coworker waste my/our time airing out thier blight not caring our training will be lacking because of this. We have procedures to address these problems . When I training for a job I have no time for sensitive feelings. Sometimes i wish the trainer would yell to get his/her point across. Im a "get the job done " type of guy

[Xavier_Onassis]

I agree with the article. Colleges (and precollege schools as well) today allow the individual departments to decide what the core curriculum is. The business division sets a standard that it will not accept undergraduates into their major degree program unless they have a 2.7 grade average.  When they discover that foreign languages and history and public speaking  courses are pulling sdown the average, they drop them from the required core curriculum, and the  administration okays this, even though the faculty handbook states that all changes in he core must be approved by the entire faculty. Then other divisions follow suit, changing the core requirements from courses that most students pass (Black History at my college) to those that they do not.

Even so, a majority of the graduates end up with degrees in the only department that has no proficiency requirement at all: Social Sciences.

The core curriculum is a great idea. Countries that oblige all students to complete a basic knowledge curriculum are outdoing the US even in Higher Education.

The whole idea that "microaggression" is a problem that can be addressed by regulation is stupid. But we are graduating dummies from colleges and universities. We will pay the price for this.

[Plane]

The whole idea that "microaggression" is a problem that can be addressed by regulation is stupid. But we are graduating dummies from colleges and universities. We will pay the price for this.

Ouch.

You are probably right.

Is STEM education affected the same?

[Xavier_Onassis]

A majority of Americans hate math. Perhaps it has something to do with the excessive ways we have of describing numbers: one two three, once twice thrice, first second third, prime, secondary tertiary. whole half, third,  fourth. Chinese is far simpler.

The courses that students had the worst time with were math and English, but the various department heads could not abolish these. They did dumb them down, though.
The serious accounting professors never lasted long, as students, including accounting majors, tended to take the easy guy who gave ABCD multiple choice tests, and walked out of the room when he gave exams. Students he gave A's to in Accounting 201 often failed 202.

[Plane]

Ouch again.


You must be right , this will cost.

[Xavier_Onassis]

There are few things less useful than an incompetent accountant.
Eventually, you will have to hire one that understands accounting.

Here is a good example:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-gardens/article43040772.html

[kimba1]

Wow thier worst than san francisco. Oops secret

They need more than a accountant. Of course they need a loan and a budget counselor .

[kimba1]

P.S. My fear about education focusing on STEM is that the other subjects are ignored. A friend of mine is a civil engineer and he minored in eng. lit and philosophy. He stated it was very helpful for his job. I noticed the majority of lawyers minored and majored in those areas.

We should never ignore unrelated subjects.