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| Purdue U hires SJW for endowed chair to head Engineering Ed Dept |
| 2017-04-01 |
| from professor Donna Riley's bio page at Smith (where she currently works) My scholarship currently focuses on applying liberative pedagogies in engineering education, leveraging best practices from women's studies and ethnic studies to engage students in creating a democratic classroom that encourages all voices. In 2005 I received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support this work, which includes developing, implementing, and assessing curricular and pedagogical innovations based on liberative pedagogies and student input at Smith, and understanding how students at Smith conceptualize their identities as engineers. I seek as an engineering educator to be part of a paradigm shift that these pedagogies demand, repositioning concerns about diversity in science and engineering from superficial measures of equity as headcounts, to addressing justice and the genuine engagement of all students as core educational challenges. Apparently this is not a satire. |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #11 ''This can't be real, Mitch Daniels is still President, seriously, I can't believe this |
| Posted by: TzSenator 2017-04-01 22:05 |
| #10 I'm afraid it isn't drivel. It requires a little translation, but the meaning is quite clear: "Ya'll are screwed up. I'm here to teach you goodthink. When the miracles don't happen, that will just prove how much you need me." |
| Posted by: james 2017-04-01 19:05 |
| #9 Lysenko laughs. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-04-01 18:59 |
| #8 Putting the Don't hire grads from SJW colleges. The angry parents who paid tens of thousands for an unemployable HR-nightmare will do your work for you in reforming academia. Also, don't forgive student loans for unemployable SJW degrees |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-04-01 18:05 |
| #7 ...creating a democratic classroom that encourages all voices YJCMTSU! The bio page at Smith College: Donna Riley, AssocProf. of Engineering.. Pseudo-Marxist drivel, assuming that dogma can reshape reality through the magic of reification. |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-04-01 16:29 |
| #6 What's 2 + 2? What do you want it to be? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-01 15:17 |
| #5 SpaceX recruiter: "Have you had much exposure to basic rocket engine design?" Purdue Grad: Thats { racist | sexist | islamophobic | homophobic | moronophobic } !!!!! I'll sue because my feelings are hurt! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-04-01 13:20 |
| #4 Raj :yep, that's some serious word salad right there. So... can we assume that the Purdue engineering students won't be allowed to learn all of that ucky white patriarchy stuff like math, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, statics, dynamics, electromagnetism, etc., etc., etc? SpaceX recruiter: "Have you had much exposure to basic rocket engine design?" Purdue grad: "How hard can it be? I'll just Google it." |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2017-04-01 12:49 |
| #3 World-class drivel right there. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-04-01 12:10 |
| #2 And if the facts and the data don't agree, we'll get some new facts and data. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-04-01 11:43 |
| #1 "If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightfully consider it an act of war." Glenn T. Seaborg, National Commission on Education, 1983 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-01 05:00 |