Yep. The politics of higher ed (at least at my own campus) are mind-boggling.
One of the arguments clusters around the notion that all bachelor's degrees should require roughly the same number of units/credit hours in the subject, regardless of how complex or not the subject is. Anything else wouldn't be "fair" to the students in higher unit-loaded majors. Not surprisingly, Computer Science is one of those higher unit-loaded degree programs. And so we feel the pressure to cut courses. And then there's the issue of FTE turf: the History department has managed to engineer that all graduating students, regardless of major, must take a minimum of FOUR courses in history. And, finally, there's apparently some legal argument that we can't call it a bachelor's degree program if it takes demonstrably longer than 4 years to complete (current average is 6 years). Judy On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Frightening. So the students learn to type in C++ but not understand > what they're typing? > > I'll bet the same administrators go to conferences with furrowed brows > and much hand-wringing trying to determine the cause of America's > intellectual decline, never understanding their own role in the process.... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
