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Whichever one he chooses. He was just interviewed on CBS and sounds like a great young man who will be an asset wherever he goes. -
This article actually gives some valuable insight into the current recruiting process.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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http://nypost.com/2014/04/12/its-not...rews-everyone/
In its recent ruling that athletes at Northwestern University have the right to unionize, the National Labor Relations Board cited the case of senior quarterback Kain Colter, who naively thought that he could pursue a pre-med degree while also playing on the school’s football team.When he attempted to enroll in a required chemistry class during his sophomore year, “Colter testified that his coaches and advisors discouraged him from taking the class because it conflicted with morning football practices. Colter consequently had to take this class in the summer session, which caused him to fall behind his classmates who were pursuing the same pre-med major. Ultimately he decided to switch his major to psychology which he believed to be less demanding.”In other words, despite the fact that Division I athletes are making oodles of money for their schools, their interests are not being served by coaches or administrators. Athletes’ academics and future career prospects are being sacrificed for a few more points on the field.
But athletes are not alone. Regular students are also contributing to the university’s bottom line through tuition payments and the spigot of federal financial aid — yet their interests are not being served, either.In exchange for their eye-popping tuition checks, students are getting a dizzying array of pointless classes that don’t prepare them for the real world. Colleges have gotten more and more esoteric in what they teach, more specialized to the point of being useless to anything but . . . academia.Comment
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In universities across America, where a movement is afoot to label classic literature with "trigger warnings" to prevent students from stumbling upon a passage that might make them uncomfortable. The movement,*as reported*by The New York Times, has its basis in feminist ideology; at Oberlin College, students suggested that a course's syllabus should flag anything that might "disrupt a student's learning" and "cause trauma," such as passages including "racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, ableism and other issues of privilege and oppression."
If the professionally aggrieved get their way, our children's delicate psyches won't be sullied — as 130 years of young readers' have — by reading classics such as Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," which deals with racism in the stark language used in 1884. Or Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," which treats the Jewish character of Shylock historically appropriately. These texts are historically invaluable, as they remind students what the world once was; in that sense, they serve the same purpose as modern films such as "12 Years a Slave."
Of course, the very process of learning consists of coming into contact with ideas that cajole, discomfort and challenge. Much of the acrimony in modern politics is likely traceable to the inability of people to learn to handle opposing viewpoints; sheltering students from challenging literature out of a sense of "sensitivity" is ensuring they will remain ill-prepared when they spring forth from the womb of campus. As Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education told The Times, "There is a real important and serious value to being offended."
Gone are the days when campuses served as places where unpopular ideas could be given voice; now, universities purge ideas from the public square if they don't fit their infantilizing sensitivity models.
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ESPN reports some shocking allegations of academic fraud from a former University of North Carolina basketball star: "Rashad McCants, the second-leading scorer on the North Carolina basketball team that won the 2004-05 national title, told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that tutors wrote his term papers, he rarely went to class for about half his time at UNC, and he remained able to play largely because he took bogus classes designed to keep athletes academically eligible.McCants told “Outside the Lines” that he could have been academically ineligible to play during the championship season had he not been provided the assistance. Further, he said head basketball coach Roy Williams knew about the “paper class” system at UNC. The so-called paper classes didn’t require students to go to class; rather, students were required to submit only one term paper to receive a grade.McCants also told “Outside the Lines” that he even made the dean’s list in the spring of 2005 despite not attending any of his four classes for which he received straight-A grades. He said advisers and tutors who worked with the basketball program steered him to take the paper classes within the African-American Studies program…"
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A little late, I know, but you probably can watch the series online.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/...paign=newshourComment
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http://www.vox.com/2014/9/5/6106807/...content=friday
In a few days, US News and World Report will release its latest college rankings.*Everyone will click to find out who rose and who fell, and an Ivy League college (or Stanford) will top the list as it always does, and college presidents will publicly*bemoan*the invidious power of US News.And then, privately, they will start scheming about how they, too, can climb the ranks.The usual critique of rankings is that*they're meaningless. But the problem is actually much worse. The rankings*encourage a rogue's gallery of unethical behavior.*Well-intentioned changes to the methodology won't fix them. Theproliferating*rankings from*other publications*won't dethrone them.Comment
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Boston Magazine just came out with a story on Northeastern gaming the ranking system.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/a...lege-rankings/Comment
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MIT, Worcester Tech and Babson make this list.
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