5 Jan
2012
5 Jan
'12
2:16 p.m.
On 01/05/2012 03:18 PM, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
U.S. colleges seem to be *extremely* profitable businesses.
Assuming you're talking about the University of Maryland at College
Park, I've had some contact with that particular organization. Their
shenanigans aren't new; they started in the mid-1990s. They very much
fall into the "how the mighty have fallen" category.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
Q: Won't
some students have difficulty with that?
A: Oh, it's "Social Darwinism". We have too many entering students, so we
WANT 80% to drop out of the program in the first year. If we don't get at
least 80% leaving the program, then we merely increase the workload until
enough fail and leave. Sometimes we have to work them 20 hours a day, and
assign 4:00 AM lab times, etc. to get the desired result. They won't be
expelled, or anything, they can still become business majors.
UMCP does the exact same thing, only they mix in unfair/arbitrary
grading practices to jack up the failure rate. AFAICT, they do it so
that they can get the students' money for a couple of semesters but not
actually have to teach them anything. I switched to math after 2
semesters in CS and never looked back. Not that that stopped me from
programming (for the university no less), or getting a career in
software development... made me hate the university administration though.