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That's one side. The other side looks like this: https://spelmanblueprint.com/810/opinions/professors-bitter-op-ed-shows-issue-in-hiring-white-faculty-at-hbcus/
by HarryHirsch 2y ago
That's one side. The other side looks like this: https://spelmanblueprint.com/810/opinions/professors-bitter-op-ed-shows-issue-in-hiring-white-faculty-at-hbcus/ https://spelmanblueprint.com/810/opinions/professors-bitter-...
The background is a new faculty member actually teaching at university level. We know that proofs and reading are required. They do not.
- tristor 2y ago> We know that proofs and reading are required. They do not. In the context of you saying this after sharing a link to an article around difficulties at HBCUs, I'm trying to find some charitable way to interpret your statements as something other than horrendously racist. Can you please expound on this, or am I taking this correctly?
- HarryHirsch 2y agoYou do notice that it is the HBCU student who drags race in ("white male professor teaching at an all women’s HBCU"). Math education in large tracts of the country is not good, more so in areas plagued by rural and urban poverty, but that's no excuse to continue in the same way at college. It's sadly common that incoming students have no clue what a proof is and that mathematics isn't plugging numbers into formulas, but there's no excuse continuing that at college level, especially when it's an elite college. But the kid who wrote the article disagrees, she demands spoonfeeding. Give me my economics degree, but it mustn't have math in it!