This should not be taken as a statement that I am in favor of open
admissions, necessarily--it depends on the mission of the institution.
But the mayor's comments make no sense.
Chuck Lindsey, Ph.D. clindsey@fgcu.edu
Director of General Education
Program Leader in Mathematics
Florida Gulf Coast University
19501 Ben Hill Griffin Pkwy
Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565
Phone: (941) 590-7168 Fax: (941) 590-7200
http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/clindsey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoffrey Akst [SMTP:akst@idt.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 1998 9:08 AM
> To: mathedcc@archives.math.utk.edu
> Subject: [MATHEDCC] Down with math remediation?
>
> At my university, the mayor is lauching an attack against open
> admissions (see below from today's Chronicle of Higher Education
> posting).
>
> * NEW YORK CITY'S Mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Wednesday
> called on the City University of New York to end open
> enrollment, saying that the admission of poorly prepared
> students had resulted in alarmingly low graduation rates, a
> trend with "disastrous consequences" for the city.
>
> It remains to be seen how this attack will play out on the
> university's two-year colleges, and on the various remedial programs
> including those in math.
>
> Geoff Akst
>
>
>
>
> Geoffrey Akst
> Mathematics Department
> Manhattan Community College
> 199 Chambers Street
> NY, NY 10007
> (v) 212/346-8530, -8531, -8532
> (f) 212/346-8550
> (e) akst@idt.net
>
>
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