Diversity can only be attained when a sufficient pool of people willing to learn and do the work exists. There is always going to be a ratio of people that want to be engineers and those that have the mental abilities to do so. That ratio I do not believe naturally changes across race or sex.
[...]de-centering Western civilization;[...]
The recently appointed dean of Purdue’s school, Dr. Donna Riley, has an ambitious agenda.
In her words (italics mine): “I seek to revise engineering curricula to be relevant to a fuller range of student experiences and career destinations, integrating concerns related to public policy, professional ethics, and social responsibility; de-centering Western civilization; and uncovering contributions of women and other underrepresented groups…. We examine how technology influences and is influenced by globalization, capitalism, and colonialism…. Gender is a key…[theme]…[throughout] the course…. We…[examine]… racist and colonialist projects in science….”
The solution is to ensure that women and minorities have a fair and accessible path forward into STEM.
The solution is to ensure that women and minorities have a fair and accessible path forward into STEM.
How exactly is it currently "unfair"?
The solution is to ensure that women and minorities have a fair and accessible path forward into STEM.
How exactly is it currently "unfair"?
QuoteEven as an undergraduate many years ago, my engineering classmates and I noticed that fact, and we were proud to have a major that valued only the quality of one’s work. In that sense, engineering was like athletics, or music, or the military: there were strict and impersonal standards."
That sounds like a view from the inside, with a high degree of confirmation bias thrown in. If there really were impersonal standards then you would not see certain groups massively under-represented. If a lecturer looks into a class of engineering students and doesn't see around a 50-50 split male-female the question to ask is why?
The solution is to ensure that women and minorities have a fair and accessible path forward into STEM.
How exactly is it currently "unfair"?
Colleges are a scary place in terms of SJWs. It's my main concern when I go to college full time. I feel the need to take extra care in my actions so that people don't try to screw me over ...
The solution is to ensure that women and minorities have a fair and accessible path forward into STEM.
How exactly is it currently "unfair"?
I believe it is well documented that female students in high school are treated differently (on average) when it comes to STEM subjects. They do not receive the same encouragement as male students, and career counselors do not propose an engineering vocation as readily as they do for male students. This means that disproportionately fewer women seek a career in engineering compared to the number who are able and qualified to do so.
(I can tell this anecdotally, when there were only one or two women in my high school physics class comprised almost entirely of males. Similarly for chemistry and mathematics. I don't think this was statistically representative of the abilities across the student intake.)
Colleges are a scary place in terms of SJWs. It's my main concern when I go to college full time. I feel the need to take extra care in my actions so that people don't try to screw me over ...
Sounds like you could benefit from finding yourself a safe space?
(Thought: maybe - just maybe - the way you feel these things "scary" and 'concerning' is very similar to the way people who aren't members of [Privileged In-Group, whatever the domain] feel all the time in places where the [Privileged In-Group] dominates everything, from discussion to everyday life.
And consider that the academic discourse & papers that everyone's mocking / are afraid of is just the way that people who study society frame things in their own well-defined terms and language. Something which goes on here everyday, with "engineers" / us technical people trying to re-frame questions & problems into terms that we understand...)
[Yes, you can probably take it as read that this particular relatively privileged white male has little time for the whining of other relatively privileged people over things that will barely affect them, if at all. Other people worrying about & attempting to fix this kind of stuff for themselves is only a problem if you're hell-bent on making it a problem...]
I used to get angry about this nonsense. This is a self-defeating ideology that cannot stand long term. Now I'm just popping popcorn and watching it burn itself out.
The solution is to ensure that women and minorities have a fair and accessible path forward into STEM.
How exactly is it currently "unfair"?
It is largely unfair in the sense that a minority in the US will attend a vastly inferior set of schools that her or his white counterpart. The racial disparity in education in the US is caused by how education is funded: property taxes. Rich neighborhoods have great schools. Poor neighborhoods have correspondingly poorer schools The poor are trapped in an underfunded educational system and end up at a huge disadvantage if they are accepted to college at all.
At least in the US, minorities are still at a substantial disadvantage for college attendance. The solution is to fix primary and secondary education, not dumb down the college curriculum.
STEM students should be taught STEM only, and the SJ rubbishes don't mix with scientific and engineering mind.
If you want a real mind-bender ask a SJW why height and skin color are heritable, but personality and intelligence are not. I tried it many years ago (when we were still allowed to ask that question) and did not enjoy the experience. These days I'd probably just be fired.
If you want a real mind-bender ask a SJW why height and skin color are heritable, but personality and intelligence are not. I tried it many years ago (when we were still allowed to ask that question) and did not enjoy the experience. These days I'd probably just be fired.
Eugenics went out of fashion in 1945. Give it a rest.
If you want a real mind-bender ask a SJW why height and skin color are heritable, but personality and intelligence are not. I tried it many years ago (when we were still allowed to ask that question) and did not enjoy the experience. These days I'd probably just be fired.
Eugenics went out of fashion in 1945. Give it a rest.
I don't think that a put down of eugenics is the response to this.