I graduated in Engineering. I will tell you the 'privilege' shown to minorities was unfair, unjust, and truthfully when you think about it dangerous.
I should clarify, SOME minorities received this privilege. I did not see this privilege with Asian or Indian students - come to think of it - NO other minorities seemed to get any preferential treatment....except one. I had no problem with these 'unprivileged' minorities at all as they worked their tails off - just everyone else I knew. Sooner or later though, even with the 'privilege' SOME of these minority students were given, they still ended up dropping out as the workload was just too much and prohibitive to them continuing.
Undeserving 'privilege' in STEM majors especially - IMO - is downright dangerous and in my mind bordering on criminal.
Do YOU want to be misdiagnosed or be prescribed incompatible medicine by a doctor that didn't correctly assess all factors when making a decision?
Do YOU want your family to cross a bridge that was designed by an engineer that was incompetent ? Something as simple as incorrectly specifying a bolt or a grade of steel can be a cause of catastrophic failure. Yeah, it's that important.
I saw this with women in computer engineering recently at a Big 10 school. Woman fails every test, was in study group with others. She gets a B, everyone who helped her gets a D. She had the lowest scores on each test of those in the study group. (class was circuits, notoriously very difficult)
Defund the university until they remove that critical race bullshit from their curriculum.
Hello African Americans, Ohio State thinks you're so stupid that you can't possibly graduate or find a job on your own merit.
This is the kind of thinking that leads to stuff like the 737 Max crashes.
I graduated in Engineering. I will tell you the 'privilege' shown to minorities was unfair, unjust, and truthfully when you think about it dangerous.
I should clarify, SOME minorities received this privilege. I did not see this privilege with Asian or Indian students - come to think of it - NO other minorities seemed to get any preferential treatment....except one. I had no problem with these 'unprivileged' minorities at all as they worked their tails off - just everyone else I knew. Sooner or later though, even with the 'privilege' SOME of these minority students were given, they still ended up dropping out as the workload was just too much and prohibitive to them continuing.
Undeserving 'privilege' in STEM majors especially - IMO - is downright dangerous and in my mind bordering on criminal.
Do YOU want to be misdiagnosed or be prescribed incompatible medicine by a doctor that didn't correctly assess all factors when making a decision?
Do YOU want your family to cross a bridge that was designed by an engineer that was incompetent ? Something as simple as incorrectly specifying a bolt or a grade of steel can be a cause of catastrophic failure. Yeah, it's that important.
archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201019180723/https://engineering.osu.edu/action-plan-racial-equity-and-inclusion
Also OSU (4 years ago) https://web.archive.org/web/20201003140229/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_University_attack
The faculty committee who came up with that shit is probably still patting themselves on their white backs.
I saw this with women in computer engineering recently at a Big 10 school. Woman fails every test, was in study group with others. She gets a B, everyone who helped her gets a D. She had the lowest scores on each test of those in the study group. (class was circuits, notoriously very difficult)