Ivy League College Mulls Reducing Science In Favor Of Diversity Requirements

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Colleges working hard to make American's stupid.

Barnard College, the all-women college affiliated with Columbia University, is considering slashing its foreign-language and science requirements while requiring students to complete a new requirement on “diversity,” the Columbia Spectator wrote Friday.

Barnard is conducting an ongoing review of its core curriculum, which is expected to be fully implemented for the 2016-17 school year.

Just what would qualify for fulfilling the diversity requirement is unclear, although the Spectator said it would be “focused on local, global, and social issues.” It would also replace the more limited Cultures in Comparison requirement.

While diversity is on the ascent, hard sciences and foreign languages may be on their way out. The school is considering eliminating a required semester of lab science, as well as slashing its foreign language requirement from four semesters to two. During hearings last fall, several students had complained that taking mid-level classes to fulfill the language requirement was “too hard.” Others complained that the school’s core curriculum was too culturally restrictive.

Claire Bouchard, a Barnard senior, said the proposed requirement would allow students to escape an exclusively “Western” worldview.

“They’re iterating this call for a need to have a more critical perspective of what they’re looking at, and being given the tools to engage in conversation that may not necessarily fall in line with what a lot of the Western world would like to think, and at least be given the ability to don different lenses and to don different points of views,” Bouchard told the Spectator.

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/ivy-league-college-mulls-reducing-science-favor-diversity-requirements/

 

[Webster]

To borrow & paraphrase a quote from the HBO Miniseries Generation Kill...

You know what happens when you leave college? You get your brains back.

 

[DrLeftover]

Excuse me, can somebody please explain to me EXACTLY what in the name of Randy H. Hell they mean by "diversity"?

It CAN NOT be ANYTHING to do with "dead white men", or Jesus, or anything that might be perceived as "Conservative" or "Capitalist", or that in any way might offend ANY of the Protected Classes.

So, how is that "diverse"?