I saw this The Week article linked on Drudge:
Students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism. More than 1,300 students at the Midwestern liberal arts college have now signed a petition asking that the college get rid of any grade below a C for the semester, and some students are requesting alternatives to the standard written midterm examination, such as a conversation with a professor in lieu of an essay. Oberlin students want to abolish midterms and any grades below C
Never mind that grades below C are measurably below average; what matters is that students feel good about themselves and their marginal efforts. Failure is only "delayed success," you know. :lol:
It's the sign of the times and the very worst side of modern American liberalism.
- Don't give grades that make some students feel better about themselves than others.
- If anybody gets an award, everybody must get an award.
- Don't keep score in games.
- And now do away with any evidence of failure.
No wonder 30% of the millennials are still living with their parents and many have never held a real job. No wonder such a high percentage of them are stoned on pot or meth or ectasy or any of the other popular recreational drugs. And no wonder that they think activism to be a noble use of their time rather than earning a living in a way that increases and benefits society.
A 'Community Organizer' as presently highly held example to them?
I saw this The Week article linked on Drudge:
Students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism. More than 1,300 students at the Midwestern liberal arts college have now signed a petition asking that the college get rid of any grade below a C for the semester, and some students are requesting alternatives to the standard written midterm examination, such as a conversation with a professor in lieu of an essay. Oberlin students want to abolish midterms and any grades below C
Never mind that grades below C are measurably below average; what matters is that students feel good about themselves and their marginal efforts. Failure is only "delayed success," you know. :lol:
I sure hope that Oberlin College does not go for this, the impact will be further dilution of the value of the degree given.
Right-wingers only started ****ting on the title "community organizer" because it turns out a Democratic president used to be one. To this day, they have no idea what a community organizer actually does.
com·mu·ni·ty or·gan·iz·er
noun North American
noun: community organizer; plural noun: community organizers; noun: community organiser; plural noun: community organisers
- a person whose job is to coordinate cooperative efforts and campaigning carried out by local residents to promote the interests of their community.
"he was the chief community organizer mobilizing residents against the destruction of the Oak Ridges Moraine"
It is a liberal arts college, it is not like the degree actually matters
I saw this The Week article linked on Drudge:
Students at Oberlin College are asking the school to put academics on the back burner so they can better turn their attention to activism. More than 1,300 students at the Midwestern liberal arts college have now signed a petition asking that the college get rid of any grade below a C for the semester
and some students are requesting alternatives to the standard written midterm examination, such as a conversation with a professor in lieu of an essay. Oberlin students want to abolish midterms and any grades below C
Never mind that grades below C are measurably below average; what matters is that students feel good about themselves and their marginal efforts. Failure is only "delayed success," you know. :lol:
It's the sign of the times and the very worst side of modern American liberalism.
- Don't give grades that make some students feel better about themselves than others.
- If anybody gets an award, everybody must get an award.
- Don't keep score in games.
- And now do away with any evidence of failure.
No wonder 30% of the millennials are still living with their parents and many have never held a real job. No wonder such a high percentage of them are stoned on pot or meth or ectasy or any of the other popular recreational drugs. And no wonder that they think activism to be a noble use of their time rather than earning a living in a way that increases and benefits society.
Checking Google, there's about 3,000 students, so this isn't a majority of students who agree, so this isn't likely to pass. That's worth noting.
As far as asking for an alternative to exams, I think that is actually a reasonable request. I think many educators would agree that if there was the time for students to have each student withstand a 30 minute conversation (Read: questioning), that would be a far more reliable indicator of a students knowledge than any exam. That being said, people don't have time of that, especially for large classes sizes (50 students, let alone the 100/200/300 student intro STEM classes). So for the usual reasons, it won't happen. None the less, if I were a student, I would want it. I'd definitely be getting more for my money.
Bare in mind, I think most people think of this like sitting down with some hot cocoa and talking about Game of Thrones with your professor. That's a totally incorrect picture. This system, where you stand in front of a professor while they ask you questions, is the exact same system by which we award PhD's, the highest ranking academic degree. You don't take a test precisely because people take PhD's seriously. You wouldn't be allowed to get that degree because you just wrote a thesis or you just filled out a "really hard" exam that you could study for. It works, it cuts through the BS, and you're very, very responsible for the material.
Well, The Donald would co-sign that message, anyways. =)
Right-wingers only started ****ting on the title "community organizer" because it turns out a Democratic president used to be one. To this day, they have no idea what a community organizer actually does.
Last time I checked, the U.S. doesn't have a don system like Oxford's. And I sat for prelims, which were a bitch, BTW, and then only later did I defend. And I did so sitting, not standing.
I heard Friday about a young professor who was forced into sensitivity training because at the beginning of the semester, she handed back a paper and used the wrong pronoun in addressing the student as "him." She wasn't aware that the student was someone who is "transitioning." You just can't be too careful these days.
And never mind that learning takes effort and may not validate your esteemed opinion of yourself--it's always somebody else's fault. You weren't prepared for university work because your teachers were all bad, you know. Has nothing to do with your "not liking" reading or not being good in math. You ARE good in math; the profs all just have it out for you. :roll:
It is a liberal arts college, it is not like the degree actually matters
I imagine most of us looked it up at the time. Did you? Obama didn't know what it was when he took the job. He couldn't explain what the job was when he left. He has extremely little to point to as any accomplishment while doing the job. I think it was his inability to get much accomplished and his belief that things don't get done unless a person has power that prompted him to go to law school.
It was probably Satan. *Mwahaha* [emoji48]And who told you all of this?
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